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Credit for the milestone went not to Promoter O'Brien but to a new and extraordinary group of backers headed by Tilden's onetime doubles partner, Francis Townsend Hunter...
...Edward Townsend Stotesbury, Civil War drummer boy and senior Philadelphia partner of Drexel & Co., a Morgan affiliate, surprised photographers at the Philadelphia Union League's Kindergarten Club dinner by declaring he would never again be photographed in his familiar act of beating a drum. A Kansas City woman had written him that he should be ashamed of such puerile publicity...
President and Mrs. Conant will hold their annual reception on Christmas Eve, at eight o'clock, at the President's house. Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, will read. Music will be directed by Malcolm Holmes '28, while carol singing will be conducted by Archibald T. Davison, professor of Choral Music...
After Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend cried persecution and flounced out of a House investigating committee room last spring (TIME, June 1), the House boldly voted to charge him with contempt, then discreetly proceeded to let the matter lapse until after election. Soon as the old pensioneer's political pretensions had been destroyed at the polls last month, the U. S. District Attorney in Washington sprang into action. Last week a grand jury indicted Dr. Townsend for contempt of the House. Also indicted were two onetime aides, Clinton Wunder and John B. Kiefer, who, on Dr. Townsend...
Penalty for conviction on this rare charge is one to twelve months in jail, $100 to $1,000 fine. In Los Angeles, Dr. Townsend, not averse to publicity-making martyrdom, announced that he would go to jail before paying a fine. In Washington, legal authorities announced that he would probably have no choice, since a jail sentence would almost certainly accompany his conviction...