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Roosevelt countered this "idea" of Townsend's, with his own plan. Social Security. With the passage of the Social Security Act, Dr. Townsend's time in the spotlight ended, and his plan was soon forgotten. He lived to be 93, dying in 1960.
             G. Huey Long. He was a Senator from Louisiana. In 1934, he launched his "Share the Wealth Society." His plan involved taxing all incomes over 1 million dollars. With that, he promised to all families a basic household estate of $5,000. There would also be a minimum annual income of $2,000 per year. Other aspects of his Share Our Wealth Plan involved government support for education, old-age pensions, benefits for war veterans and public works projects. One of the problems with his plan was the fact that not all of American's wealth was in money. Most of America's richest people had their wealth in land, buildings, stocks and bonds. Carl Weiss, the son-in-law of Judge Pavy, whom had an ongoing feud with Huey Long, shot him in 1935. Long had spread rumors that Weiss's wife, Judge Pavy's daughter, had a black father, and based the rumor on the lie that Judge Pavy's father-in-law had a black mistress. .
             H. Charles Edward Coughlin was a Catholic Priest, who in the 1930s made radio addresses in which he criticized such groups as U.S. bankers, trade unionists, and Communists. In 1934 he organized the National Union for Social Justice, which denounced President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal policies and advocated such measures as silver inflation as well as the nationalizing of banks, utilities, and natural resources. Coughlin also published a magazine, Social Justice, in which he expressed pro-Nazi opinions and made increasingly anti-Semitic remarks directed at Jewish members of Wall Street. The magazine was barred from the mails by the U.S. government for violation of the Espionage Act and ceased publication in 1942. Father Coughlin was silenced by his superiors but continued his church duties.