Word: townsends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Your article (TIME, Aug. 24) on Florida's Pension Senator struck me as an excellent analyzation of the situation here. Doubtlessly, Judge Andrews will dispute the implication that Townsend votes were responsible for his election...
...this fall Harvard opened its new and magnificent set of Houses for the upperclassmen of the College and took the Yard from the Senior Class to hand it over to the Freshmen. At the time, it was done with fear and trembling and even Copey, Harvard's beloved Charles Townsend Copeland, looked, up on the invasion of the first-year class as the approach of doom. For with 1,000 lusty throats, as yet unmodulated by the traditions of the College, to bellow "Reinhart" the prospect was not too pleasant...
...college she fell in love with an evangelist, became deeply religious, watched the unfolding of an ugly campus "romance" when an effeminate music teacher married to stop the gossip that was threatening his job. At home she saw a still more sordid end to romance when Kirby Townsend married, communicated a venereal disease to his wife, was finally crippled in an accident while driving with a village bad woman. As a schoolteacher Selma was fond of a boy named Dwight Fleming, until Dwight spotted a famed bandit, won a reward of $725.00 for giving information that resulted in the bandit...
...Union Florida is one of the most rabidly Townsendite. In its regular Democratic primary this year to select five Representatives, three of them turned out to be Townsendites. Nominated without opposition for the seat of the late Senator Duncan U. Fletcher was young, aggressive Claude Pepper, charter member of Townsend Club No. 1 of Tallahassee...
...support of Florida's labor vote, and Charles Oscar Andrews, a onetime circuit judge, who had never made a State-wide campaign before and whose chances of victory were ridiculed by the Press. But Democrat Andrews not only had the endorsement of Florida's Convention of Townsend Clubs, but led all other candidates in his devotion to Townsendism. When the votes were counted, Townsendite Andrews had a neat majority of 4,500. Since nomination is tantamount to election, he became the first man to win a place in the U. S. Senate in a campaign where he depended...