Word: gurley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...