Word: townsends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend cried persecution and flounced out of a House investigating committee room last spring (TIME, June 1), the House boldly voted to charge him with contempt, then discreetly proceeded to let the matter lapse until after election. Soon as the old pensioneer's political pretensions had been destroyed at the polls last month, the U. S. District Attorney in Washington sprang into action. Last week a grand jury indicted Dr. Townsend for contempt of the House. Also indicted were two onetime aides, Clinton Wunder and John B. Kiefer, who, on Dr. Townsend...
...nomination for Man of the Year, and running in the order listed, now are: Roosevelt, Edward VIII, Mrs. Simpson, Landon, Farley, Mussolini, Gehrig, Dr. Townsend, Mr. Simpson. The poll closes...
...artistic talent. Last week Manhattan's Arden Galleries held a family show of five generations of the Emmet women's paintings. The 130 exhibits by 14 artists begin with nine portraits by Immigrant Elizabeth Emmet (1794-1878), and end with nine sculptures by Great-Great-Grandniece Julia Townsend, aged 22, and with two by Beulah Emmet, aged...
...considerable expenditure of effort, by tuition, and high living costs. There is, however, a substantial, if not entirely vocal body of student opinion which denies Harvard's superiority as an undergraduate institution. These students wonder if the College will ever again see a Bliss Perry or a Charles Townsend Copeland, and whether the educational ideas of Harvard are not being transformed into a pattern which may eventually resemble that of the Carnegie Foundation...
...Townsend, who had also vapored about "controlling" the next Congress, claimed 102 sympathizers in the new House. But of the successful candidates whom he endorsed, only a fraction returned the compliment in a pre-election poll by United Press in which 240 Congressmen-to-be declared themselves stanchly opposed to the oldster's Plan. With Dr. Townsend thus proved politically harmless, U. S. Attorney Leslie C. Garnett announced in Washington last week that the onetime messiah would be prosecuted forthwith on the contempt citation voted against him last spring when he walked out on a House investigating committee (TIME...