Word: townsend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known group includes Paul Perkins, Swede Anderson, George Hibbard, Steve Mallett, and Bobby Byrnes from the Varsity squad; Paul Garrity, Rick Woodruff, and Don Blake from the Junior Varsity; and Herman Stromberg, Ray, Eder, Townsend Ellis, and Howie Gleason from the spring practice squad...
Pentagon pundits offered explanations: 1) his predecessor, Major General Russell P. ("Scrappy") Hartle (new assignment unannounced), was due for relief from 18 months of duty overseas; 2) Townsend Gerow holds the confidence of Chief of Staff George Marshall, whom he followed by ten years at Virginia Military Institute.* Best guess was that Gerow's reputation earned him a job that may take him to the bridgeheads on Western Europe. He is one of the Army's top infantry tacticians...
...schoolteacher, fundamentalist radiorator, moonfaced "Bible Bill" Aberhart preached a new millennium, was elected to produce it in depression-ridden 1935. His version of Clifford Hugh Douglas' theories tried to combine funny money, state control of credit, a feeble application of the Keynes public-works principles, handouts à la Townsend. The attempt was foredoomed by Alberta's economic dependence, the hostility of courts and capital. One of the few non-Marxian reformers taken at his word and told by the voters to pitch in, he did not look like a demagogue to small Canadian investors who knew his administration...
William David Shambroom, Edward Thomas Shanks, Daniel Abraham Shephard, Harold Charles Small, Frank Vreeland Snyder, Samuel Alexander Sommers, Jr., Russell Baskin Stannard, Richard Winslow Swanson, Robert Arnold Townsend, Leonard Oscar Weinstein, Richard Foster Woodward, Frank Herbert Wyman...
Despite wartime exigencies, the contest was only slightly more informal than that of last year. The scene of action was moved from traditional Paine Hall and the participants were not in normal dress. Professor Hillyer conducted the speeches from the floor and expressed regret that Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of oratory and Rhetoric, emeritus, was unable to serve as honorary judge...