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...support for Townsend votes last year. Without reading the latest Townsend Bill, Doughton & Co. got the House Rules Committee to push it onto the floor this week, ban all amendments and force a roll-call vote. "I think you fellows just took this monkey off your backs," joshed Rulesman Martin Dies of Texas. Massachusetts' Republican Allen Treadway, who teased Townsenditcs in his district with half-promises, was pressed for his opinion of the Doughton scheme. "I have told you time and again that I didn't give a continental damn!" fumed Mr. Treadway. Dr. Francis Everett Townsend conceded...
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