Word: townsends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...specific and simple character of the Townsend plan is what makes it appeal to so many people. One doubts of course whether the number of supporters is as high as the good Doctor places it, but you may rest assured it's high. Walter Lippmann, who is back in the fold again, by the way, spiked it beautifully in a couple of articles, but the people who support that sort of thing don't read articles; they read dollar signs...
...clamped down as never before. The Cabinet met, Congressional leaders came & went, the President's message was revised, policies for 1935 were thrashed out. Such all important questions as how the demands for immediate payment of the Bonus, for inflation, for the 30-hour week, for the Townsend plan could be blocked in Congress or held to harmless proportions were canvassed. And for once the Press & public were kept in ignorance not by a plethora of conflicting information but by a silence undefiled...
...tailors queried by Associated Press picked him as the best-dressed man in the U. S. Mr. Loew has been cited for his sartorial splendor on numerous occasions but last week he stepped out ahead of such tailors' patrons as Publisher Conde Nast, Philadelphia's Edward Townsend Stotesbury, Senator David A. Reed, Douglas Fairbanks...
...Crimson in its first 1935 game Peter Jay '36 and Edward H. Gerry '36 were at the number 1 position, while A. Townsend Winmill '37 and Henry A. Gerry '36 rode at number 2 and number 8 respectively...
...interest you have shown in regard to the Townsend Plan for old-age pensions [TIME, Oct. 15] leads me to suppose you might possibly be interested by another organization newly formed, The Universal Association for the Aggrandisement of Individuals between...