Word: townsends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democratic Governor M. Clifford Townsend (no kin) of Indiana welcomed the conventioneers, advised them: "Make sure who are your true friends and who. are trying to ride on your shoulders...
Cadle Tabernacle and the State fair grounds in Indianapolis were arenas last week for 10,000 yowling old delegates to Dr. Francis E. Townsend's fourth annual...
...oldsters got so pepped up that they heaped $3,500 cash into a basket as a starter for Dr. Townsend's radio campaign fund. They chanted...
...Townsend's next strategy is to send oratorical squads called "trail blazers," ten men to a squad, into the districts of 53 Representatives who accepted his movement's support in the last election, then deserted at the showdown. This activity will be concentrated in the Great Lakes States. ("Why, 75% of the Congressmen west of the Mississippi are for us anyhow!") By election time next year, if he has campaign funds enough, the Doctor expects to have so spread the fear of oldsters that the next Plan vote in Congress will be different. For his radio fund...
...well-shepherded sheep, 453 left-minded U. S. novelists, poets, critics and journalists met last fortnight in Manhattan. Brought together as the Third American Writers' Congress, they and an audience of more than 2,500 were addressed on opening night in Carnegie Hall by English Novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner ("The pen is not mightier than the sword, but it is as mighty"); by Exile Thomas Mann ("Fascism has overstepped its mark ... its decline is already determined."); by Eduard Benes, ex-President of Czecho-Slovakia ("a kind of United States of Europe will be the end. . . ."). After a collection...