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Announcing in Manhattan last week that he and Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend had joined forces to oust President Roosevelt from office, Rev. Gerald L. K. ("Share-the-Wealth") Smith declared: "Last Saturday night Dr. Townsend and I stood under the historic arch in Valley Forge and vowed to take over the Government...
...vote of 271-10-41 cited Dr. Francis E. Townsend-who refused to testify before a House committee investigating his old age pension scheme (TIME, June 1)- for contempt. The House, however, did not choose to make a political martyr of Dr. Townsend and two of his aides cited with him. Instead of trying them itself, the House shunted their case along to the District of Columbia courts...
Peppered with questions which he could not answer about the cost of administering the Plan and the basis for estimating the probable yield from a universal transactions tax, Dr. Townsend finally turned on his questioners, expressed his opinion of all such petty quibblings in a sharp bleat: "Oh, why all this nonsense?" Townsendgrams & Fraud. Third morning's questioning involved another Townsend appeal for funds. In January 1935 four men went to Washington to lobby the Townsend Plan through Congress. To pay their expenses Townsendites were asked to contribute to a special Congressional Action Fund, supplied $23,400. Four months...
...said Dr. Townsend, "it was not necessary...
...enraged at the continued booing that he floored his Syracuse University opponent for a count of nine in the first round. ¶ The 175-lb. bout won by Creighton University's Footballer Carl Vinciquerra, who beat to a pulp the handsome face of plucky, tattooed William Townsend, who junketed 5,000 mi. from his U. S. Army post in Hawaii for the tournament. ¶ The heavyweight championship in which the listless performance of winning Negro Arthur Oliver and losing Negro Willis Johnson again prompted spectators to boo. Unprecedented result was that to Berlin this summer will...