Dr. Francis Everett Townsend, author of the $200-a-month pension plan for old folks which bears his name, announced that California's latest craze$30-every-Thursday ("Ham & Eggs")is "wholly impractical and absurd."
Vinegary Westbrook Pegler, who has often made sour remarks about Italy in his syndicated column, was sneered at by an Italian paper, the Bologna Resto del Carlino: "It's sufficient to reveal that Signor Pegler, defamer of Italians living in America, is a Jew and that the group for which he works, Scripps-Howard, is Jewish."*
Before a mixed Los Angeles jury of nine middle-aged women and...
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