Word: clementses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lives of football heroes, child actors, prodigious poets and boy Senators have demonstrated time & again the perils and penalties of early fame. Spotlighted in Washington last week was the rarer but less tragic phenomenon of a man to fame came late. Seventeen years ago Dr. Francis Everett retired to California...
Thus did the father of the Townsend Plan, having lost his No. 1 organizer when young Co-Founder & National Secretary Robert Earl Clements resigned last fortnight, also lose his No. 1 Congressional spokesman. But it remained to be seen whether these two apostasies meant, as newshawks reported, that the Townsend...
The Townsend Plan, testified Co-Founder Clements before the special House committee investigating it last week, now belongs exclusively to Dr. Townsend and his brother Walter. By the California law under which Old Age Revolving Pensions was incorporated, they may at any time dissolve the organization, pocket its assets. Brother...
Other revelations of Townsend men, money & methods turned up last week as the House committee's youthful Counsel James R. Sullivan of Kansas City barked leading questions at imperturbable Co-Founder Clements:
The story which Mr. Clements told his friends was reported by Scripps-Howard's Washington Columnist Raymond Clapper as follows: "Although young Clements had occasionally to 'correct' some of the ill-advised political statements of Dr. Townsend, they went along fairly well until last November, when TIME...