Word: yowls
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...only eight states provided modest pensions based on need-but it took several years to resolve the complex arguments about how much to pay and how to finance the program. Considerable pressure came from the Townsend movement, the creation of Dr. Francis Townsend, a retired physician in California, whose yowl of protest began when he saw three old women sifting through garbage cans for scraps. Townsend wrote a letter to a newspaper demanding $150 a month for all old people, and that demand soon mushroomed into clubs, newspapers, protest meetings and the noisiest crusade of 1935. The Social Security...