Word: townsends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been a fertile field in which these quacks and charlatans, these false prophets of social reform have promoted their schemes and rackets representing vast sums in unholy profits at the expense of tens of thousands of good and faithful but deluded followers. . . . I cast no reflection whatsoever on Dr. Townsend as a medical doctor. . . . but, as a doctor of the ills which afflict our social order, he is a charlatan and a quack...
...Washington, a Townsendite Democrat: "Certified public accountants have approved the plan's finances. . . . We welcome the investigation but we fear we are fiddling here while Rome is burning." There was no halting the tide of 240-to-4. That evening Robert E. Clements, secretary-treasurer of the Townsend organization, scornfully declared the investigation to be "pure and unadulterated political persecution. . . . These monkeys have played right into our hands. They are giving us the biggest piece of publicity we could ever have hoped to get. We shall be exonerated...
Finances. The interest of the House was addressed not to the pensions the aged hope to receive but to the dues they are hopefully paying to Townsend Clubs. Grandiose claims have been made that as many as 8,000,000 persons have joined Townsend Clubs. Members are supposed to pay a 25? initiation fee, 10? a month in dues. There is also a Townsend National Legion for well-to-do oldsters, who pay $1 a month dues. More money rolls in from the sale of buttons, badges, medallions, pictures of Dr. Townsend, and the Townsend Weekly, with possible revenue adding...
...Press, Secretary-Treasurer Clements recently gave a more modest explanation of Townsend finances: He and Dr. Townsend get $100 a month and expenses; many members are behind in dues; much money goes for organization, printing, postage, radio time and pay for 600 employes; up to last June $628,000 had been collected and all but $51,000 spent; collections are between $75,000 and $100,000 a month; sales of buttons, literature etc. have grossed about...
...Significant fact is that, unlike other committees of the House, nearly all of which are top-heavy with Democrats, the committee to investigate the Townsend Plan consists of four Democratic and four Republican members. This Democratic generosity was due to the majority's desire to have Republicans share equal responsibility for the investigation. Republicans were glad to share the responsibility because, practically speaking, the investigation is a move to defend sitting members of Congress from the attacks of the Townsendite candidates...