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...nomination for Man of the Year, and running in the order listed, now are: Roosevelt, Edward VIII, Mrs. Simpson, Landon, Farley, Mussolini, Gehrig, Dr. Townsend, Mr. Simpson. The poll closes...
...artistic talent. Last week Manhattan's Arden Galleries held a family show of five generations of the Emmet women's paintings. The 130 exhibits by 14 artists begin with nine portraits by Immigrant Elizabeth Emmet (1794-1878), and end with nine sculptures by Great-Great-Grandniece Julia Townsend, aged 22, and with two by Beulah Emmet, aged...
...considerable expenditure of effort, by tuition, and high living costs. There is, however, a substantial, if not entirely vocal body of student opinion which denies Harvard's superiority as an undergraduate institution. These students wonder if the College will ever again see a Bliss Perry or a Charles Townsend Copeland, and whether the educational ideas of Harvard are not being transformed into a pattern which may eventually resemble that of the Carnegie Foundation...
...Townsend had boasted of some 10,000,000 Townsend Plan voters primed to do his bidding. Priest Coughlin had sworn that he would deliver 9,000,000 votes to the Union Party or get off the air. Preacher Smith numbered his Share-Our-Wealth faithful at 6,000,000. Last week their joint candidate, William Lemke, polled 650,000 votes...
...Townsend, who had also vapored about "controlling" the next Congress, claimed 102 sympathizers in the new House. But of the successful candidates whom he endorsed, only a fraction returned the compliment in a pre-election poll by United Press in which 240 Congressmen-to-be declared themselves stanchly opposed to the oldster's Plan. With Dr. Townsend thus proved politically harmless, U. S. Attorney Leslie C. Garnett announced in Washington last week that the onetime messiah would be prosecuted forthwith on the contempt citation voted against him last spring when he walked out on a House investigating committee (TIME...