Word: clementses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Less than two-thirds of the delegates were over 60, for the Townsend Plan also appeals to young citizens with parents or other aged relatives to support, but to impartial eyes Secretary Clements' audience seemed as likely a collection of prospects as an undertaker could find outside Old Folks...
Thus did good Dr. Townsend brave thick-flying charges that he and National Secretary Clements have turned their great dream into a pious racket
"Chief." Robert Earl Clements was born 40 years ago in Amarillo Tex., son of a rich cattleman. After high school in Fort Worth, he migrated to Long Beach Calif, set up in the real estate business, prospered. His fortune reached a peak of $750,000 in 1929, slumped with Depression...
...year three Denver Townsendites returned from a mission to Washington to proclaim that Founders Townsend and Clements were not really trying to get their scheme through Congress were simply staging enough of a show to keep the money coming in. Frank Peterson, onetime Townsend publicity director charged that the Clementses' high living was entirely paid for by the pennies & nickels of deluded oldsters. He said Founders Townsend and Clements were netting $2,000 per week from the Townsend Weekly, 5? sheetlet which now reports 220,000 circulation. Swiftly revolt broke out in Colorado, Oregon, Minnesota and California Townsend Clubs...
Last week Secretary Clements met these charges with an auditor's report on Townsend finances since July 1934, before which date he said the organization had collected only the "pitiful sum" of $6,850.83. Receipts from dues, donations sale of official literature and paraphernalia were $636,803.21. Expenditures for...