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...Allan M. Butler, assistant professor of Pediatrics at the Medical School, and Dr. James H. Townsend '17, instructor at the Medical School, will lead a discussion on socialized medicine at the Winthrop House Junior Common Room tonight at 8 o'clock...
Heaping honor upon fame, the International Mark Twain Society has recently made Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, an honorary member. "Copey" will be surrounded in the Society by such famous names as the Honorable Winston Churchill, England's representative, and Andre Maurois, French author...
...Francis E. Townsend, as he arrived in Washington last week to "clean up this contempt business"-i. e., to serve a 30-day sentence for having walked out on a Congressional committee trying to investigate his $200-per-month pension plan, in May 1936-seemed almost eager to get behind bars. He was planning, he said, to work on his autobiography during his incarceration. He scoffed at efforts on the part of Senator William G. McAdoo, who in the past had made no secret of his scorn of Planner Townsend, to get him pardoned...
...just as Planner Townsend was about to give himself into the hands of a U. S. Marshal to begin his term, word came that Franklin Roosevelt had lent a sympathetic ear to Senator McAdoo, had pardoned Planner Townsend. Apparently not in the least crestfallen at losing a month's privacy and martyrdom, Dr. Townsend said: "It is complete vindication and an act of contrition on the part of Congress...
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. '38, son of the United States ambassador to Great Britain, debates tonight at the Brookline Town Hall against John D. Elliott '30, Townsend lecturer, on the relative merits of the Townsend Plan. The debate is sponsored by the Brookline Townsend Club...