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Democratic Governor M. Clifford Townsend (no kin) of Indiana welcomed the conventioneers, advised them: "Make sure who are your true friends and who. are trying to ride on your shoulders...
Cadle Tabernacle and the State fair grounds in Indianapolis were arenas last week for 10,000 yowling old delegates to Dr. Francis E. Townsend's fourth annual...
...oldsters got so pepped up that they heaped $3,500 cash into a basket as a starter for Dr. Townsend's radio campaign fund. They chanted...
...well-shepherded sheep, 453 left-minded U. S. novelists, poets, critics and journalists met last fortnight in Manhattan. Brought together as the Third American Writers' Congress, they and an audience of more than 2,500 were addressed on opening night in Carnegie Hall by English Novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner ("The pen is not mightier than the sword, but it is as mighty"); by Exile Thomas Mann ("Fascism has overstepped its mark ... its decline is already determined."); by Eduard Benes, ex-President of Czecho-Slovakia ("a kind of United States of Europe will be the end. . . ."). After a collection...
...Another witness-of-the-week was Dr. Francis Everett ("Plan") Townsend. who watched grimly from the gallery while the House voted down, 302-to-97, his bill to pay all 60-year-oldsters Federal pensions of $50-60 per month, financed by sales taxes to produce $4-6,000,000,000 piled on top of all other U. S. taxes. Chairman Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee delivered the official excoriation, using the following adjectives: unequal, unjust, unsound, fanatical, intolerable, inequitable, cockeyed, crackpot. Dr. Townsend's solace: three years ago the House had him sentenced for contempt (Franklin Roosevelt...