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President emeritus Lowell and his colleagues are singing their swan song of privilege by opposing the child labor law, and Harvard professors will be eligible for benefits from the Townsend Plan if it does not do better by them than it has done by its scrub-women...
...McGroarty Bill called for the Townsend Plan-$200 a month pension for every well-behaved oldster over...
Kicks. Congressional kicks against the Administration's Social Security program were that it was not liberal enough. To Townsend Planners the idea of $30 a month pensions was small change compared to their proposal of $200 a month. Said Senator Borah: "I am not satisfied to make an outlay of nearly $1,000.000,000 for armaments and $15 for old age." Said Senator Nye: "We are led to the mountain top by the generalized prospectus and rudely dropped by the detailed program...
...TOWNSEND...
Sirs: If there are really 25,000,000 signatures to the petitions in favor of the so-called ''Townsend'' scheme, it merely confirms me in an opinion I have held for some time - that the great majority of the inhabitants of this country are morons. . . . In this land of liberty (?) any addlepate can vote on an equal basis with his intelligent neighbor (if any), on any and all of the complex problems put before them. The result is that candidates for office are obliged, if they hope to be elected, to appeal to the moronic riff...