Word: townsends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need a New Deal, but a New Deck," bubbled Delegate Ralph Higgins of Seattle. "That New Deck is the Townsend Plan...
...Social Security Act is utterly inadequate and cruelly unjust," cried Washington's State Treasurer Otto Case. "The Townsend Plan will speed the return of prosperity...
...power on earth can stop the Townsend Plan," boomed Washington's Representative Martin Smith...
...Just as Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation," throbbed Negro Delegate W. H. Jackson of Indianapolis, "Dr. Townsend will sign the proclamation setting the industrial slaves free." Happy were Townsendites to be once more in the news. "Oh, yes, some think we are dead," barked National Secretary Robert E. Clements, "but look around you at the corpses here assembled and count them. Do we look dead to us? No undertaker will find business here...
Less than two-thirds of the delegates were over 60, for the Townsend Plan also appeals to young citizens with parents or other aged relatives to support, but to impartial eyes Secretary Clements' audience seemed as likely a collection of prospects as an undertaker could find outside Old Folks Home. Nonetheless their numbers and zeal served notice that the Townsend dream still lived, warned Congressmen to expect another wave of letters and petitions when they reconvene in January. The convention also introduced to the nation the man who, out of good Dr. Francis E. Townsend's misty imaginings...