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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Secretary Clements met these charges with an auditor's report on Townsend finances since July 1934, before which date he said the organization had collected only the "pitiful sum" of $6,850.83. Receipts from dues, donations sale of official literature and paraphernalia were $636,803.21. Expenditures for salaries, advertising, equipment, etc., were $585,446.42. Dr. Townsend received $7,532.75-a salary of $50 per week plus "about $74 a week" for expenses. On the same basis Clements...
Votes for 1936. Obediently voting against political alliances or a third party the delegates last week granted Leader-lownsend and Clements full power to say which "friends" should get Townsend support and votes in 1936. The leaders also tightened their financial reins by getting a vote against sale of "unauthorized" literature, a vote to assess each Townsend Club of per month per member whether individual members pay up or not. Town-Clubs now number some 4,000 in 48 States, average 500 members apiece...
...Manhattan last week 47 churches were for sale. This fact became evident only after an advertisement appeared in the Press...
...British Asiatic Fleet, off for the Red Sea and European troubles. Then into Hongkong sailed part of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet on its way to the Philippines. A U. S. gunboat and a British warship put in at Swatow. Japanese abruptly dropped their demands. A "face-saving" sale of the sequestered rice cargo was arranged. The Japanese war boats rolled out of Swatow...
...great fire of 1835, New York City was saved from annihilation only because numerous buildings were dynamited. As a result, one of the first acts of reconstruction was the Croton Aqueduct, financed by the sale of lottery tickets. Even after the Aqueduct was finished, fire-fighting remained in the hands of private companies whose rivalries frequently threatened the city, since partisans of one company or another would seize the hydrant near a blaze, prevent its use until friends arrived. Such colorful items of dubious historical importance Henry Collins Brown includes in a volume on Victorian New York, succeeds in writing...