Word: clementses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cried Representative Martin F. Smith of Washington, a Townsendite Democrat: "Certified public accountants have approved the plan's finances. . . . We welcome the investigation but we fear we are fiddling here while Rome is burning." There was no halting the tide of 240-to-4. That evening Robert E. Clements...
"It has been charged," roared Secretary Clements, "that Dr. Townsend pocketed $600 of this money. It is a damnable lie Every cent has been accounted for."
Overlooked was the fact that, on arriving in Chicago, Dr. Townsend had told newshawks that his organization had taken m $1,200,000 to date. Publicity Director Boyd Gurley, one-man brain trust of the Townsend outfit, smoothed things over by declaring that the movement had grown so fast its...
Votes for 1936. Obediently voting against political alliances or a third party the delegates last week granted Leader-lownsend and Clements full power to say which "friends" should get Townsend support and votes in 1936. The leaders also tightened their financial reins by getting a vote against sale of "unauthorized...
On Sunday the 6,000 delegates repaired with some 3,000 interested Chicagoans to the Stockyards Pavilion for a bang-up convention finish. Millions of other optimstic oldsters were supposed to be listening by radio as, all sordid bickering aside Secretary Clements lifted the Townsend Plan once more to its...