Word: townsends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Senator Van Nuys opposed President Roosevelt's Supreme Court plan last year, he was singled out as Victim No. 1 for the great purge of the Democratic Party. Franklin Roosevelt said nothing publicly, but Mr. McNutt's obedient satellite, Governor Maurice Clifford Townsend of Indiana, announced it last July from the White House steps (TIME, July 26), repeated it last August at a powwow of Democratic editors in Indianapolis: "The people of our State will not tolerate . . . any one in public office who will not put his shoulder to the wheel and give his earnest support...
Senator Van Nuys also knew the rank & file of the McNutt-Townsend machine, knew how its appointees contribute 2% of their State salaries to the machine's treasury, how scandalous certain of its dealings -in liquor licenses, for example-could be made to look. Republicans began to say nice things about him: as an "independent" he would certainly split the Democratic vote, help a Republican...
Suddenly three weeks ago, Senator Van Nuys, vacationing in Michigan, received a telegram from Governor Townsend, inviting him to be a candidate for renomination before an "open" State convention. Last week, at Indianapolis. Governor Townsend orated: "I sincerely hope you will select those who will cooperate in the broad liberal program of our President for recovery and security." And Senator Van Nuys was renominated by acclamation...
Into Oklahoma rumbled the Roosevelt special. There, silver-crowned Senator Elmer Thomas is engaged in a three-cornered fight with oil-rich Governor Ernest Marland and Indian-blooded Representative Gomer Smith. To potent Governor Marland the President was most polite. Upon Gomer Smith, loud exploiter of Townsend Plan promises, he cracked down by inference, quoting Roosevelt I on the "lunatic fringe." Senator Thomas was allowed to ride on the Presidential train (but so was Governor Marland), was called "my old friend," described as "of enormous help ... in keeping me advised as to the needs of the State...
Thayer fellowships to: Paul L. Richard 3G, Willard A. Smith 1G. Thayer scholarships to: Sidney W. Benson, Columbia University John C. Greene, University of South Dakota. William S. Johnson 1G. Thomas R. Steadman 1G. Gorham Thomas scholarship, Herbert W. Crispin. Townsend scholarships to: Laurence L. Barber Jr. 1G, Bernard S. Lynn, Stanford University, Donald T. MacRae, Dunlap Observatory. John Tyndall scholarship, Henry Hurwitz Jr. Cornell University...