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...public attention and then receding to the silent depths of history. The Utopian movement, whipped up into big breakers by the 1934 campaign, spent itself in the defeat of California's Upton Sinclair and his EPIC. Its successor, the Townsend Plan, touched its high watermark just before Chairman Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee put the old country doctor on the witness stand and made a monkey out of him (TIME, Feb. 18). As of All Fools Day, 1935, the largest political splash was being made by Huey Pierce Long's Share- the-Wealth movement...
...Clay Williams first went up from North Carolina to deal with the New Deal on behalf of the tobacco business. He was a powerfully-formed, slow-spoken man of Scotch-Irish ancestry, born in Iredell County, part of Representative Bob Doughton's Congressional district. As a young lawyer he was picked by the late Richard J. Reynolds and brought up in the tradition of the company that makes Camels: a company in which every director is a salaried officer and gets down to the plant in the morning at the same hour as the men. That tradition does...
...thing Congressmen were interested in: how to kill the Townsend Plan without inviting political reprisals from thousands of their constituents. Robert Doughton, 71-year-old, 6 ft. -3 in. tall Chairman of Ways & Means, did his colleagues a notable service by cross-examining Dr. Townsend in a way that made it easy for them to laugh him out of the Committee room...
...Doughton demanded, did Dr. Townsend know he had the one and only panacea for economic ills...
Seized by a great wrath at the small allotment he had received for his cotton plantings, one J. S. ("Ceph") Blalock, Republican leader of Stanly County, N. C., determined to take it out on North Carolina's famed Congressman Robert Lee Doughton, Coming up behind old "Farmer Bob" on a street in Albemarle, he began by cursing, ending by asserting: "You ought to be kicked." Backwoods man Doughton, 71 but spare and sinewy, invited: "Why don't you do it then?" Republican Blalock swung a chunky fist at his enemy's leathery, buzzardish face. Down upon his head Democrat Doughton...