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Not good, grey Dr. Francis Everett Townsend but shrewd, dynamic Co-Founder and National Secretary Robert Earl Clements is the man who has marshaled the Townsend hordes into a potent and profitable political army. In Washington last week, day after he was summoned to appear before the House investigating committee...
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...
Finances. The interest of the House was addressed not to the pensions the aged hope to receive but to the dues they are hopefully paying to Townsend Clubs. Grandiose claims have been made that as many as 8,000,000 persons have joined Townsend Clubs. Members are supposed to pay...
To the Press, Secretary-Treasurer Clements recently gave a more modest explanation of Townsend finances: He and Dr. Townsend get $100 a month and expenses; many members are behind in dues; much money goes for organization, printing, postage, radio time and pay for 600 employes; up to last June $628...
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...