Word: townsends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late. Seventeen years ago Dr. Francis Everett retired to California to spend last years in the sun. Like that of every physician, his life in South Dakota's Black Hills had been a hard one which had him no fame and very little Legend has it that Dr. Townsend's new life began when he looked out of his California window one day, saw two crones dining from a garbage can. It is more reasonable to suppose that the old physician was set to brooding on the sorrows of the aged poor by the fact that...
...companion Robert E. Rogers, who had implanted himself solidly on the side of the order that is, and now writes a column for the Boston Evening American. He was to go beyond the teachings of his liberal mentor Lincoln Steffens and to stop writing to his beloved Charles Townsend Copeland because correspondence with a radical was dangerous business in the war years. He bore the seeds of a conviction and as that conviction grew it crowded friendships, pleasures and privileges that were incompatible with it out of his mind. The story of his thirty-three years is precisely what Hicks...
Once Dr. Francis E. ("$200 Per Month") Townsend declared that he favored Borah-for-President, later withdrew his endorsement. Last week before 8,000 oldsters in Los Angeles he issued a trial balloon for a new type of Townsend ticket. Said...
Benjamin R. Townsend '87 succeeds Paul C. Henshaw '86 as Varsity Crew manager in the new managerial staff announced last night, as Glibert E. Jones '88 becomes assistant manager...
...California Democratic voters had a choice of two protests against President Roosevelt's failure to embrace "Production-for-Use" and the Townsend Plan. When the results were counted, 101,403 had chosen Upton Sinclair's EPIC slate; 58,897 had plumped for Representative John S. McGroarty's Townsendite group. That left the President a tremendous majority...