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HARVARD '42 ANDOVER Kuhn l.e. r.e. Whoopes Miller l.t. r.t. Fisher Row l.g. r.g. Macomber Ayres c. c. Scekins Peabody r.g. l.g. Lyford Gardiner r.t. l.t. Remsen Johnson r.e. l.e. Barr Lyman q.b. q.b. Hallowell Spreyer l.h.b. r.h.b. Gould Tine r.h.b. l.h.b. Townsend Heiden f.b. f.b. Bissett...
There lanky, seamy-faced Vice President L. Wallace Jeffery of T. N. R. P. in offices occupying one whole floor of a big lakeside building, has checked the 1.000 or so candidates standing for the 435 House seats and 32 Senate vacancies. Mr. Jeffery, assisted by Dr. Townsend's dark-haired young son Robert as secretary-treasurer, has found only 155 Congressional candidates worthy of T. N. R. P. endorsement.† About two-thirds of them are Republicans, including the three incumbents already re-elected in Maine and Senator Gerald P. ("Neutrality") Nye of North Dakota...
...product of this trend is Candidate McMasters who polled 48,000 votes in Massachusetts' Republican primary for Governor, although he did not have the official Townsend accolade. Nor was his deal with Candidate Saltonstall the brainchild, as many observers guessed, of shrewd young Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. It was engineered by an opportunist even shrewder: William Henry McMasters...
...betting service, to get "for the State" some of the revenue pocketed by the horse-race bookies. Governor Curley's legal department turned him down. The next year Mr. McMasters ran for Governor as candidate of Father Coughlin's Union Party. His reappearance this year as a Townsend Planner had definite nuisance value to both Candidate Curley and Candidate Saltonstall, but most for the latter. After their deal last week the blue-blood candidate and the old age promoter broke bread together like old frineds friends. In its latest form, the Townsend Plan proposes Federal pensions...
...lastest form, the Townsend Plan proposes Federal pensions, up to a maximum of $200 per month, for all persons 60 or over proving indigence, the amount paid to vary monthly by prorating among all certified pensioners the proceeds 20% :"transaction tax" (levied on every exchange of money for goods services.) The pensioners would be required to spend all their pension money each month before receiving more. Last week Dr. Townsend was in Hawaii studying a "gross income" tax of similar design instituted there in 1935 to increase the velocity of exchange...