THE CONGRESS: Loss & Profits

Since the Townsend Plan burgeoned some 18 months ago, editors, columnists, economists and a few brave politicians have devoted thousands upon thousands of words to denouncing it, ridiculing it, exposing its fallacies. Except to advertise it, all this has had no effect whatever on the Plan. Terrifying to Congressmen, the ranks of Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd. have swelled & swelled as oldsters from coast to coast planked down their 10ยข-per-month dues in the happy faith that they would soon be getting back $200 per month from the Government. Last week the...

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