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This research note discusses in some detail the economic problems with the very popular Old-Age Revolving Pension Plan (aka the Townsend Plan promoted and publicized by Dr. Francis E. Townsend (above)) of the 1930’s.
https://ifp.nyu.edu/wp-admin/post-new.php
On June 16, 1918, Debs delivered his famous Canton speech — “The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles” — which would eventually land him in federal prison. He would remain there until Christmas morning 1921.
Police survey Saunderton Railway Station after a suffragette arson attack, March 9th, 1913