Word: townsends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francis Everett Townsend's day as economic savior of the nation is past virtually everywhere but in Chelan, Wash. Chelan, a Main-Street town of 2,000 population, is perched high above the Columbia River, some 90 miles northeast of Grand Coulee Dam. Chelanites depend for their livelihood on seasonal occupation in the fine apple orchards of broad Chelan Valley. In the winter, when there is little work for them in the snow-covered orchards, they are hard pressed. Naturally enough, they readily subscribed to the ideas of Dr. Townsend, formed a Townsend Club soon after his something...
Credit for the milestone went not to Promoter O'Brien but to a new and extraordinary group of backers headed by Tilden's onetime doubles partner, Francis Townsend Hunter...
...Edward Townsend Stotesbury, Civil War drummer boy and senior Philadelphia partner of Drexel & Co., a Morgan affiliate, surprised photographers at the Philadelphia Union League's Kindergarten Club dinner by declaring he would never again be photographed in his familiar act of beating a drum. A Kansas City woman had written him that he should be ashamed of such puerile publicity...
President and Mrs. Conant will hold their annual reception on Christmas Eve, at eight o'clock, at the President's house. Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, will read. Music will be directed by Malcolm Holmes '28, while carol singing will be conducted by Archibald T. Davison, professor of Choral Music...
Penalty for conviction on this rare charge is one to twelve months in jail, $100 to $1,000 fine. In Los Angeles, Dr. Townsend, not averse to publicity-making martyrdom, announced that he would go to jail before paying a fine. In Washington, legal authorities announced that he would probably have no choice, since a jail sentence would almost certainly accompany his conviction...