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...late. Seventeen years ago Dr. Francis Everett retired to California to spend last years in the sun. Like that of every physician, his life in South Dakota's Black Hills had been a hard one which had him no fame and very little Legend has it that Dr. Townsend's new life began when he looked out of his California window one day, saw two crones dining from a garbage can. It is more reasonable to suppose that the old physician was set to brooding on the sorrows of the aged poor by the fact that...
Commented Dr. Townsend last week: "I still think we have the country by the tail...
...Hell with Them!" Urging formation of a Townsend third party in a letter to Clements last September, Dr. Townsend wrote: "I tell you, Old Fellow, the way for us to lick the stuffing out of the old parties is to become militant and go after them hammer and tongs for being totally incompetent, as we know they are. . . . We should begin ... to talk about the 'Townsend Party,' not wait in the foolish hope that one of the old groups will adopt us. If they do, they will treat us like poor adopted trash. To hell with them...
Noting that Dr. Townsend's picture appeared with those of Washington and Lincoln on the cover page of the Townsendite "Manual for Speakers," Michigan's Hoffman asked its significance...
...should like to be classed with them," replied Dr. Townsend blandly. "I hope to attain that place...