Senior Citizen (1937)

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   Yes, it's earlier on ProQuest's LOS ANGELES TIMES.  That's California politics for you.


(PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS--LOS ANGELES TIMES)
      New Pension Plan Offered
              Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File).       Los Angeles, Calif.: Apr 15, 1937.                   p. 5 (1 page):
   SACRAMENTO, April 14. (Exclusive)--Robert Noble of Hollywood took the rostrum in the Assembly today and addressed members of the Legislature on his "roperty (sic) certificates" for senior citizens of California.

      LETTERS To THE TIMES
              Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File).       Los Angeles, Calif.: Jul 4, 1938.                   p. A4 (1 page):
   Every "senior citizen" who would receive his "$30 every Thursday" would spend the warrants as quickly as possible to avoid having to attach the weekly 2-cent stamp required.

      Just Supposing It Happened
              Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File).       Los Angeles, Calif.: Sep 25, 1938.                   p. A4 (1 page):
   it will be over the determined protest of John Taxpayer, indeed, that either the "senior citizens," or those who fell for their optimism currency, collect even the full amount per ticket represented by the stamps licked and stuck thereon.

      Haight Assails Pension Plan
              Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File).       Los Angeles, Calif.: Oct 12, 1938.                   p. 6 (1 page)

      THE GREAT GAME OF POLITICS
       FRANK R KENT.       Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File).       Los Angeles, Calif.: Oct 28, 1938.                   p. 7 (1 page):
   WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.--One of the major developments in American politics, frequently commented on in recent months, is the multiplicity of new schemes for granting and increasing pensions to the aged--or, as some politicans are tenderly beginning to call them, "our senior citizens."


(PROQUEST--WASHINGTON POST)
      Townsend Successors Still Strong In West
       By Elmer T. Peterson. Special Correspondence of The Post..       The Washington Post  (1877-1954).       Washington, D.C.: Jul 31, 1938.                   p. B9 (1 page):
   The build-up is that every "senior citizen" has done his share of the world's work and is now entitled to a living.