Word: townsends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Support for all pension and bonus schemes. The League favors both the Townsend Plan and the bonus for future veterans...
Copey, most venerable and most beloved of Harvard's institutions, is seventy-six today. His birthday will be celebrated at the Harvard Club of New York, where the famous teacher will give one of his annual readings to members of the Charles Townsend Copeland Association. Tonight's reading will mark the thirtieth of a series which began in 1906, the only break in the chain having occurred last year, when Copey passed his birthday in Cambridge...
...Charles Townsend Copeland Association, which gathers yearly for this occasion, represents a unique group in literary history. So far as is known, it forms the only alumni society ever dedicated to a living man. The members, all former pupils of Copey, include such men as Walter D. Edmonds, Walter Lippmam, Heywood Broun. Bernard DeVoto, Donald Moffat, and Oliver LaFarge...
Because his undergraduate idol, "Copey" (Professor Charles Townsend Copeland) told him he must "see life" if he wanted to write. Reed made his first trip to Europe on a cattle-boat, then discovered that Paris was the greatest place in the world. Back in Manhattan, Lincoln Steffens got him a job on the American Magazine. Soon it began to look like Harvard all over again. He was taken into the Dutch Treat Club, was spoken of as a coming man by many a highly-paid hack. He was taken in by Mabel Dodge, whose Fifth Avenue salon was then running...
Other revelations of Townsend men, money & methods turned up last week as the House committee's youthful Counsel James R. Sullivan of Kansas City barked leading questions at imperturbable Co-Founder Clements...