Word: townsends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clements who Townsend organizers called Chief and credited with being the man who made Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd. into a functioning national organization. It was in his $13-per-day Stevens suite (1222a), not in the Town-Bends modest $7-per-day room, that the real business of the convention was transacted. Ever at his side was his pretty redhaired, 28-year-old wife Thelma, one-time stenographer, whom he married last year. Though he still owns land in 7 States, Mrs. Clements says her husband is now only moderately well-to-do. But they can afford to drive...
Last week Secretary Clements met these charges with an auditor's report on Townsend finances since July 1934, before which date he said the organization had collected only the "pitiful sum" of $6,850.83. Receipts from dues, donations sale of official literature and paraphernalia were $636,803.21. Expenditures for salaries, advertising, equipment, etc., were $585,446.42. Dr. Townsend received $7,532.75-a salary of $50 per week plus "about $74 a week" for expenses. On the same basis Clements...
...been charged," roared Secretary Clements, "that Dr. Townsend pocketed $600 of this money. It is a damnable lie Every cent has been accounted...
Overlooked was the fact that, on arriving in Chicago, Dr. Townsend had told newshawks that his organization had taken m $1,200,000 to date. Publicity Director Boyd Gurley, one-man brain trust of the Townsend outfit, smoothed things over by declaring that the movement had grown so fast its directors really did not know where they stood. Onetime editor of the Kansas City Post and managing editor of the Indianapolis Times, for which he won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize "for the most disinterested and meritorious public service." Braintruster Gurley writes most of the Townsend Weekly, bats out inspirational speeches...
Votes for 1936. Obediently voting against political alliances or a third party the delegates last week granted Leader-lownsend and Clements full power to say which "friends" should get Townsend support and votes in 1936. The leaders also tightened their financial reins by getting a vote against sale of "unauthorized" literature, a vote to assess each Townsend Club of per month per member whether individual members pay up or not. Town-Clubs now number some 4,000 in 48 States, average 500 members apiece...