Word: townsends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Dr. Townsend accuses me of political ambitions he talks like a fool!" roared the Poet Laureate of California one day last week. In the National Townsend Weekly, Representative John Steven McGroarty had just read a statement by Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend crying a pox on efforts to lure California Townsendites from Republicanism to Democracy, elect a Townsend slate of delegates to the Democratic convention with Representative McGroarty as their Presidential favorite (TIME, April 6). Asserting forthwith that Dr. Townsend had deserted his plan to finance $200-per-month pensions by a transactions tax and now proposed...
Thus did the father of the Townsend Plan, having lost his No. 1 organizer when young Co-Founder & National Secretary Robert Earl Clements resigned last fortnight, also lose his No. 1 Congressional spokesman. But it remained to be seen whether these two apostasies meant, as newshawks reported, that the Townsend Plan was in process of collapse. For Dr. Townsend, serene in the conviction of his messianic destiny, they apparently meant only that he had rid himself of two pushing, self-willed associates who had been trying to edge in on the power & glory which rightfully belonged to him. Promptly...
...Townsend Plan," cried Dr. Townsend, "belongs to the American people who support...
...Townsend Plan, testified Co-Founder Clements before the special House committee investigating it last week, now belongs exclusively to Dr. Townsend and his brother Walter. By the California law under which Old Age Revolving Pensions was incorporated, they may at any time dissolve the organization, pocket its assets. Brother Walter was taken in on the deal with him and Dr. Townsend, explained the Co-Founder, because the law required a third incorporator. Brother Walter, 45, is head porter in Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel...
Meantime burly, aggressive "Doc" Eaton was loudly calling The American Home's soaring circulation to the enthusiastic attention of advertisers. While this encouraging state of affairs was in the making, Publisher Eaton and Editor Austin gradually took over the Country Life organization, squeezed out Editor Townsend. Last autumn they purchased the two magazines outright from Doubleday, Doran for $750,000, now rule Country Life-American Home Corp. jointly, both as business partners and as man & wife...