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...rantings of Hearst and Coughlin together with Long and Townsend and the radical wing of the Democratic party do not seem to have pushed government legislation far enough to the left to satisfy the demands of certain groups among the electorate. For now introduced into Congress is the Lundeen Bill, a bill that its enthusiasts insist is the only compromise of the capitalistic system and the necessary antitoxin for depression...
Congressman Lundeen's bill should not be underrated. Already it has been brought to the floor of the House by a favorable 7 to 1 vote by the congressional committee, and--unlike the Townsend Plan--Lundeen's bill has a very substantial following in Congress itself. There is excellent possibility that the bill will be panhandled through by radicals. Grave danger awaits the nation unless H. R. 2827 is squashed at once...
Boston, March 12--American business must rally immediately "for positive support of the President's Recovery Program," if Senator Long, Father Coughlin, Dr. Townsend and other "apostles of economic vagaries are to be squelched," Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant, warned tonight...
Asserting that he was "amazed and appalled" by the unrest noticed in his recent tour of the country, Filene charged that business was solely to blame for enrollment of a claimed 34,000,000 under the banners of Long, Coughlin, or Townsend. Instead of cooperating with the Administration, it had "stalled and balked and held back until the masses are now losing hope," he said...
...Hero of a ballad, Darius Green and His Flying Machine, by John Townsend Trowbridge (1878-1916). Farmboy Green, 14, eager to fly, built homemade wings, jumped from a rooftop, landed unhappily...