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...Michigan returns, and when the Republican nominee was elected many a Republican and many a Democrat quaked miserably. The significance of the Michigan election was that it was the first victory of a candidate east of the Rocky Mountains who campaigned openly for old Dr. Francis E. Townsend's plan for $200-a-month pensions for all good citizens over 60 (TIME, Nov. 4 et ante). Hundreds of Congressmen could foresee the ominous days next autumn when they would have to stand for or against the rising tide of Townsendism...
...Michigan the tide did not rise very high. Verner Wright Main, a Battle Creek lawyer, won the Republican nomination last month in a five-sided primary because he had strong Townsend support. Dr. Townsend made two speeches in the district favoring Nominee Main's election. Republican Main polled 25,000 votes to his Democratic opponent's 11,000. However, the Michigan district in question has been consistently Republican for the last 36 years. Though a snowstorm on the morning of election day doubtless reduced the size of last week's vote, Townsendism as a vote-getter made...
...Year draws to a close and the New appears a short way off. The magic lantern slides show momentary portraits of Eden, Laval, Mussolini, George II and a host of lesser ilk. Long, Coughlin and Townsend have each passed on to the termination of their respective physical, political and economic lives...
President and Mrs. Conant will hold their usual Christmas Reception at eight o'clock on Christmas Eve, December 24, at 17 Quincy Street. All men who are students in the University are cordially welcome. Professor Charles Townsend Copeland will read and there will be carol singing led by Professor Archibald T. Davison. A few violin selections will be played by Mr. Malcolm Holmes with Professor Edward Ballantine at the piano. Miss Evangeline Merritt will sing, accompanied by her brother, Mr. A. T. Merritt...
...years Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, has given annual Christmas readings to the Freshmen. Tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock he will give the twenty-fourth reading in the Upper Common Room of the Union...