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Louisiana's outrageous Senator Huey P. Long launched his Share Our Wealth Society in January 1934 with promises "to make every man a king" through wholesale (and wholly fantastic) redistribution of the national patrimony. In the same month, California physician Dr. Francis Townsend established Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd., to promote his fetching nostrum of paying two hundred dollars monthly to all Americans over
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David M. Kennedy (Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States Book 9))