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...sound truck played Dixie at every crossroads; so did Pepper's. The Senator cried that his opponent was a tool of the rich in general and of the Du Pont interests in particular. And to win favor with Florida's numerous old folks, Pepper backed the Townsend Plan, lock, stock & barrel...
...Committee for Constitutional Government (founded by Publisher Frank Gannett, it Gannett, it lobbies for lower-taxes, less Government spending) : $620,632. ¶ National Association of Electric Companies (the power lobby): $388,883. ¶ United World Federalists: $291,672. ¶ Townsend Plan lobby: $285,371 (for nine months...
...Florida, Senator Claude Pepper was in the fight of his long political life with young (36) Congressman George A. Smathers. A personable war veteran with the backing of conservative money, Smathers centered his attack on Pepper's support of the welfare state and his sponsorship of the Townsend Plan ("a better plan than the social security act," says Pepper...
...fall of 1948, half a year after his return to Harvard, Townsend frightened his friends by talking about suicide and then disappearing from College shortly before a vacation. Groff-Smith said...
...Townsend was seen at breakfast Tuesday morning, and acquaintances reported the seemed in good spirits at the time. A friend said he thought that the morning mail might have brought bad news about a course in which Townsend had not completed the final examination...