Word: townsend
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...Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, will again act as honorary judge. Professor Copeland conducted the competitions regularly until his retirement...
Known as the Briggs-Copeland Instructorships, they are named after former University teachers of composition; Le Baron R. Briggs '16 and Charles Townsend Copeland '82. The course will be under the direction of Theodore Morrison, English lecturer and former Associate Editor of the Atlantic Monthly...
Greatest weakness of the subsidy program was the fact that 82% of all silver bought by the U. S. had come from overseas. In order to get their subsidy, the silver producers were willing that the U. S. squander indiscriminately abroad. Ranger Townsend rode through this weak point in the stockade, unloosed both barrels with a bill to end foreign silver purchases...
That bill died of Senatorial indifference. Last month Ranger Townsend resurrected it, set off, sky-hooting down the trail. Fortnight ago a new posse joined him-the twelve regional big-shot bankers of the Federal Advisory Council, adjunct of the Federal Reserve System, who announced in a unanimous yell: ". . . Purchases of foreign silver should be discontinued forthwith...
...taxes, or 2) upping the $45,000,000.000 statutory debt limit, were still thrashing around in agonies of indecision. Their eyes lit on the $1,500,000,000 "silver profit"-obtained from seigniorage*-and there they stuck, bedazzled by this vast sum of unspent "money." Unmindful of this, Ranger Townsend was riding high, in his cartridge belt fresh ammunition to blow to kingdom come the silverites' arguments. To protests that ending foreign purchases would bruise U. S.-Mexican relations, Senator Townsend could merely ask "What relations?" and snap one word: "Oil." To reminders that the silver program was designed...