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...enact a plan that seemed far too radical to some members. Roosevelt repeatedly warned congressional leaders that if they did not approve a moderate Social Security bill, popular pressure would force them to adopt irresponsible Government handout schemes like the ones being pushed by California's Dr. Francis Townsend and Louisiana Governor Huey Long. To soothe conservative qualms, Roosevelt demanded that his planners draft a scheme that was not "the same old dole." That ruled out any use of general revenues, meaning primarily income taxes, to finance any part of Social
DIED. W. Cameron Townsend, 85, pioneering Protestant missionary who brought the Bible to primitive groups by devising a written form of their language and then teaching them to read it; of leukemia complications; in Lancaster, S.C. A college dropout, Townsend found his calling in Guatemala in 1917 when he tried to sell Bibles written in Spanish to Indians who spoke only Cakchiquel. He learned the language, then during the next twelve years, with no formal linguistic training, developed an alphabet that he used to write a Cakchiquel translation of the New Testament. In 1935 he co-founded the nonprofit, nonsectarian...
NONFICTION: After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, James Davidson and Mark Lytle/ Clare Boothe Luce, Wilfrid Sheed/ How to Make War, James F. Dunnigan/ The Imperial Rockefeller, Joseph E. Persico/ Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling/ Scenes of Childhood, Sylvia Townsend Warner...
...Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, James Davidson and Mark Lytle∙Clare Boothe Luce, Wilfrid Sheed∙How to Make War, James F. Dunnigan The Imperial Rockefeller, Joseph E. Peisico∙Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling∙Scenes of Childhood, Sylvia Townsend Warner...
...world knows, Margaret suffered her severest checkmate when, in 1955, she was informed that the divorcee she loved, Group Captain Peter Townsend, was unacceptable to the House of Windsor. She renounced Townsend, "mindful of the Church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble...