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"Just as Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation," throbbed Negro Delegate W. H. Jackson of Indianapolis, "Dr. Townsend will sign the proclamation setting the industrial slaves free." Happy were Townsendites to be once more in the news. "Oh, yes, some think we are dead," barked National Secretary Robert E. Clements...
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...
Of the three other University Rhodes Scholars, Brown, a graduate of the Uni- versity of Cincinnati, is a first year Philosophy student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Clements, graduated in 1932 from Texas Technological College, is in his second year at the Graduate School of Business Administration...