Word: townsend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francis E. Townsend's 13-year-old vision of pie-in-the-sky was back again, as plain as mother's lemon meringue. Last week, 5,000 "senior citizens" stormed Washington for the first postwar national convention of the Townsend clubs of America. Without glasses, any one of them could see the vision of pensions for all citizens over 60. The trick was to make the 80th Congress...
...Townsendites met in Washington's 5,000-seat Uline Arena. The meeting got off with a whoop when two exuberant ladies saw California's placid, lantern-jawed Dr. Townsend, the 80-year-old founder, entering the jammed hall. They jumped up and began to chant...
Michigan, Michigan, Townsend clubs galore...
Also around the University in the Fall of 1921, Professor James B. Conant was an adviser, holding office hours in Boylston 6, and Professor Charles Townsend Copeland was hearing undergraduate problems in Hollis 16. E. E. Hutchinson, M. F. Lesses, G. B. Roberts, Lazarus Rubin, D. H. Sanders, David Seegal, and Samuel Teitelbaum were the only men of '22 to hold Group One averages as the year got under way. And the Otis Elevator Company advertised that the Kremlin was only one of the world's many famous buildings equipped with Otis Elevators...
...health," observed Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, three years ago to an inquirer, "is as good as any man my age in the country." Marking his eighty-seventh birthday tomorrow, Professor Copeland can find no one to dispute the point any more...