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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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqZVzUeu_oE
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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
Before Vatican II, an individual nun had to surrender her will to her superior and was no longer in control of her destiny.
“The only thing we have left is the cemetery where many of our Quapaws are buried,” says Carrie Wilson, whose mother was forced to attend St. Mary of the Quapaws school in Oklahoma.
