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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francis Everett Townsend's day as economic savior of the nation is past virtually everywhere but in Chelan, Wash. Chelan, a Main-Street town of 2,000 population, is perched high above the Columbia River, some 90 miles northeast of Grand Coulee Dam. Chelanites depend for their livelihood on seasonal occupation in the fine apple orchards of broad Chelan Valley. In the winter, when there is little work for them in the snow-covered orchards, they are hard pressed. Naturally enough, they readily subscribed to the ideas of Dr. Townsend, formed a Townsend Club soon after his something...
...think President Roosevelt is a very great man. . . . The main purpose of my visit to America is to promote my magazine. ... I am frankly envious of the popularity in the British Isles of several American weeklies...
Speaking before a capacity audience in Langdell Hall Courtroom, Joseph B. Eastman, Interstate Commerce Commissioner and former Federal Coordinator of Transportation, declared that "he would rather work for Uncle Sam than anybody else." In the main, his talk dealt with the functions of the I.C.C., and included a defense of public agencies and servants...
People began to arrive in the late afternoon. Long before 8 p. m. they had packed the main hall of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to overflowing, were huddling on stairs, pressing into small rooms and remote galleries. Thousands sat in the shadow of suits of mail, under priceless canvases, close to marble sculptures. Thousands could not see the musicians' stand, yet all 15,000, one of the biggest indoor concert audiences ever assembled, applauded deafeningly when a slim, silver-haired old man walked on to begin conducting his twentieth series of eight free Saturday performances...
...King Ranch is to Texas, what William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon is to California, the Hay Creek is to Oregon. Hay Creek (and the Bonnyview Ranch with which it is combined) is an L-shaped tract stretching 100 miles from the southern to the western boundary. The main ranch settlement is as big as a good-sized village. In lambing time the huge "maternity hospital" will sleep 3,000 ewes...