Word: townsends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another witness-of-the-week was Dr. Francis Everett ("Plan") Townsend. who watched grimly from the gallery while the House voted down, 302-to-97, his bill to pay all 60-year-oldsters Federal pensions of $50-60 per month, financed by sales taxes to produce $4-6,000,000,000 piled on top of all other U. S. taxes. Chairman Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee delivered the official excoriation, using the following adjectives: unequal, unjust, unsound, fanatical, intolerable, inequitable, cockeyed, crackpot. Dr. Townsend's solace: three years ago the House had him sentenced for contempt (Franklin Roosevelt...
Main obstacle to these amendments is the undying Townsend Plan. Last week smart Bob Doughton and his committee figured out a way to silence Townsendites for this session, hotspot some 60 Republican Congressmen (including Minority Leader Joe Martin of Massachusetts) who traded intimations of support for Townsend votes last year. Without reading the latest Townsend Bill, Doughton & Co. got the House Rules Committee to push it onto the floor this week, ban all amendments and force a roll-call vote. "I think you fellows just took this monkey off your backs," joshed Rulesman Martin Dies of Texas. Massachusetts' Republican...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE-Townsend Scudder-Macmillan...
...Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, celebrates his seventy-ninth birthday today with the good wishes of thousands of men to whom he has been teacher and friend...
Presiding at the meeting was Robert L. Green '39 acting in his position as Second Marshal while Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Emeritus served as usual in his position as honorary judge. The judges were Mr. Mark Anthony DeWolfe Howe, Mr. William James and Archibald MacLeish, curator of the Nieman collection of contemporary journalism...