Word: gotch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...college at 12." Andrew Lane, a full-time employee who answers Society members' complaints and questions, called Welch "a brilliant man, an historian of the first rank. He read Ridpath's History of the world--that's nine volumes you know--by age 7." My tour guide, Frank Gotch, who had just come from Texas to work with Lane, made sure to call my attention to the floor-to-ceiling bookshelves which run the length of the second floor--as Lane says, "Mr. Welch has read everything worth reading...
...each Society member had been asked to send in 537 petitions with the same five signatures on each--one for every Congressman, one for the Vice-President, and one for the President. At Belmont the men with the sideburns made packets and sent them to Washington. According to Frank Gotch, "we've sent four million of these petitions out, but if you divide by 537, that's not so many people. But have you ever tried to sign your name and address 537 times? Man, writer's cramp...
...Belmont, however, these issues form a small fraction of the bookshelves. The pride and joy of Society headquarters is the $40,000 mail-stuffing machine, which according to Gotch, can put as many as nine enclosures in a letter, fold, seal, and stamp a computer-typed address on it, and churn 'em out at 50 per minute...
...hardbound biography of Patrick Henry, pegged its retail price at $10, and then sent the books out free as an incentive for renewing subscriptions to the Society's monthly American Opinion magazine. The Society also sends copies out to local chapters across the country for the chapter library. Gotch showed me boxes of materials, including back issues of publications and reprints of articles, as well as books, which Belmont sends to the chapters. "There's fifty dollars worth of stuff in each of those boxes, retail value," he said reverently...
...these committees is that none of them list the John Birch Society on any of their bulletins, pamphlets, or organizational material. The Society claims that 90 per cent of the Committees' members are non-Birchers, and that 4 Hill Road only gives impetus and direction to them. But as Gotch told me apologetically as we drove away from the buildings, "The Communists have fronts. We have Ad Hoc Committees...