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...Revolving Pensions, suddenly resigned from the organization on the eve of his appearance before a special House investigating committee (TIME, April 6). It was then revealed that Dr. Townsend had been made violently jealous by public recognition of young Mr. Clement's real importance in OARP. The resulting split left the oldster undisputed master of the movement. Meantime anecdotes began circulating in Washington to the effect that his enormous publicity, his vast audiences, his worshipful followers, his new-found wealth and the obvious terror in which timid Congressmen held him had gone to Dr. Townsend's head. "World...
...week held a convention. On the walls, in true political style, hung Gargantuan portraits of the party's departed heroes: Morris Hillquit, Victor Berger, Eugene V. Debs, Karl Marx. The Socialist Convention which assembled below these familiar images was no peace gathering. Not since 1919, when the party split over allegiance to the Third International had it been so divided...
...Browder, head of the U. S. Communist party, who appeared with a polite proposal that the Communists and Socialists unite on a ticket for 1936 to be headed by Norman Thomas and Earl Browder. To this Mr. Thomas turned a cold shoulder, preferring if possible to avoid a new split in his party. The Communists, said he, "have suddenly changed from a disruptive role in the unions, from accent on inevitable great-scale violence and party dictatorship to a wiser role in the unions, but in politics to a bewilderingly opportunistic role. Their accent is on a half-baked immediate...
...small children for rides on his mile-long miniature railroad (see cut), promptly established a residence in Philadelphia by renting an apartment, the address of which he is constantly forgetting.- "My platform," he announced in fastidious Bostonese, "will be the Horse & Buggy, or Save the Constitution." In the Republican split of 1912 Boies Penrose temporarily lost his State leadership to the Bull Moose faction, which included an ardent Young Roosevelt worshipper named Gifford Pinchot. While one set of Philadelphia voters was lifting the name of Penrose up last week, another group was setting the name of Pinchot down...
...days of its famed first president, Horace Mann (1853-59), Antioch College at Yellow Springs, Ohio, kept the world of education humming with new progressive ideas. To Antioch in 1920 went tall, baldish President Arthur Ernest Morgan with ideas even newer. President Morgan split the college's students into two groups, shipped one off for five-or-ten weeks of work in offices or factories while the other studied on the campus. No professional educator but an engineer who helped harness the turbulent Mi ami River after the Dayton flood of 1913, President Morgan was released on leave from...