Word: townsends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With old age pensions looming ever larger as a factor in Depression politics, observers were not surprised last week to see a deal consummated in politically sophisticated Massachusetts between one of the major parties and a local politician who had rounded up the Townsend Plan vote. "Buyer" was the Republican candidate for Governor, blue-blooded Leverett Saltonstall. "Seller" was William H. McMasters, 64, of Cambridge, who looks something like old Dr. Francis E. Townsend. Published "price": a promise in Mr. Saltonstall's platform to make "an earnest effort to have this bill [Townsend General Welfare Act*] brought before Congress...
...separated geographically as Florida's Senator Pepper and Oklahoma's Senator Thomas have taken off their hats to it in their primary campaigns. But realistic Republicans have been the most alert in reaching for the ready-made local blocks of votes which have been quietly assembled by Townsend National Recovery Plan headquarters in Chicago...
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...
...Deal enemies, who on the one hand assert their conservatism and curse the Administration for extravagance, on the other back the most ultra-radical ideas and advocate the payment of billions in pension grants. Under this category, unfortunately must come the recent support, by Massachusetts Republicans, of the Townsend Plan...
Secondly, few of these politicians are sincere in their professed support. They make their vague promises only with the comfortable assurance that these will not actually materialize. This was amply shown by the enthusiasm of Oregon Republicans for nation-wide Townsend legislation, their bitter opposition to a state-wide Townsend scheme which faced imminent passage...