Word: townsends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the Townsend Plan burgeoned some 18 months ago, editors, columnists, economists and a few brave politicians have devoted thousands upon thousands of words to denouncing it, ridiculing it, exposing its fallacies. Except to advertise it, all this has had no effect whatever on the Plan. Terrifying to Congressmen, the ranks of Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd. have swelled & swelled as oldsters from coast to coast planked down their 10?-per-month dues in the happy faith that they would soon be getting back $200 per month from the Government. Last week the Townsend legion fell victim to the disaster...
...good, grey Dr. Francis Everett Townsend but shrewd, dynamic Co-Founder and National Secretary Robert Earl Clements is the man who has marshaled the Townsend hordes into a potent and profitable political army. In Washington last week, day after he was summoned to appear before the House investigating committee set up to destroy the Townsend threat (TIME, March 2), this 41-year-old onetime Long Beach, Calif, real estate broker announced his resignation from Old Age Revolving Pensions. His stated reason: "Differences with Dr. Townsend over fundamental policies...
...Clark, Ohio's Fiesinger, Nevada's Scrugham, New Jersey's Sutphin, Indiana's Pettengill. Lobbyist Smith never told "the boys" of his work, because "several of them knew." On the piazza of their home, they rocked back & forth, clucked to each other about Reclamation, the Townsend Plan, other legislation of the day. The Public Utilities Act, strangely enough, they never discussed...
...third question asked him at Chicago was on another touchy subject, the Townsend Plan. His answer: "I favor old age pensions of $60 a month." Then he laughed, "You've asked me all the hard ones. Now give me something easy...
...Boylston Prizes are of older origin, having been founded in 1817 by Ward Nichols Boylston in honor of his uncle, Nicholas Boylston. He established the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, a position at present held in emeritus by Charles Townsend Copelaud '82, who was honorary judge of the speeches last night...