Word: townsends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus, out of last week's ashes, little radical third parties could dream of rising in a new and greater incarnation. For the Union Party's ambitious triumvirate, Father Coughlin, Dr. Townsend and Preacher Smith, the bird indicated by the democracy last week was not the phoenix but the dodo...
...Townsend had boasted of some 10,000,000 Townsend Plan voters primed to do his bidding. Priest Coughlin had sworn that he would deliver 9,000,000 votes to the Union Party or get off the air. Preacher Smith numbered his Share-Our-Wealth faithful at 6,000,000. Last week their joint candidate, William Lemke, polled 650,000 votes...
With Father Coughlin and Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend as his principal supporters, Nominee Lemke has conducted his campaign on a thesis all his own : The Government borrows money from the bankers, pays them interest, re-deposits its money with them, borrows it again. "If the Government can do this for the international bankers, why can't it do it for us all?" On the ballot under various titles (Union Party, Union Progressive, Third Party, Royal Oak Party) in 34 States, Nominee Lemke last week hopped about like a winged knight on a chessboard, spent...
...interview him. He shoved at them a telegram from Republican Chairman Hamilton. It announced that arrangements had been made for him to speak in Los Angeles this week. Startled at this sudden change of plans, wondering if it was caused by new hope of California since Dr. Townsend advised his followers in California to vote for Landon (TIME, Oct. 19), newshawks asked why he was going...
With Unionist William Lemke barred from California's ballot, Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend decided last week to vote for Alf Landon, summoned his California disciples to do likewise. "I cannot and will not," declared the old pensioneer, "support for the Presidency the man who is our sworn enemy. I advise that we choose the lesser of the two evils. . . ." Subsequently he gave the same advice to Townsendites in eight other States where Lemke will not be on the ballot: Florida, Oklahoma, Nevada, Kansas, New Jersey, North Carolina, West Virginia, Maryland...