Word: townsends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loudly for a little while on the beach of public attention and then receding to the silent depths of history. The Utopian movement, whipped up into big breakers by the 1934 campaign, spent itself in the defeat of California's Upton Sinclair and his EPIC. Its successor, the Townsend Plan, touched its high watermark just before Chairman Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee put the old country doctor on the witness stand and made a monkey out of him (TIME, Feb. 18). As of All Fools Day, 1935, the largest political splash was being made by Huey Pierce...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Albert J. Guerard 1G, of San Francisco, California, will receive the Harvard Club of an Francisco Scholarship; Madison S. Booler 1G, of Rochester, N. Y., the Townsend Scholarship; James O. Ferrell 2G, of Decatur, Alaska, a University Scholarship; and Stanley B. Jackson 2G, of Madison, New Hampshire, the Wales Scholarship...
...common Congressman is California's white-haired John Steven McGroarty, 72. He is California's poet laureate by act of the Legislature. He sponsors Dr. Francis Everett Townsend's fabulous old age pension plan. And last week he told the Press he had sent a constituent the following letter...
...With A. Townsend Winmill '37, and Thomas J. Davis '35 scoring the sole point for the Crimson, the Eli team, riding hard and skillfully, indicted upon the Crimson trio their second defeat of the season, thus blasting their hopes of reaching the National finals...
...most that such a victory could achieve," he said, "would be to close the door to business recovery by rational action, and to open the door for Townsend, Coughlin, Long and chaos. The same radical mass vote, if it were successful in defeating Roosevelt, won of course elect enough of its own members to Congress to hold the balance of power...