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...delegates from California, one from Florida. With some 6,000 delegates from every corner of the land, they swarmed into Chicago's huge Stevens Hotel, thrust $2 registration fees across the counters of four booths, got gilded medals hung on blue badges. One thousand members of the new Townsend Legion, who pay $1 per month special dues, were distinguished from ordinary 10?-per-month dues-payers by red badges. The club tags and State ribbons, which everybody wore, made it easy to get acquainted...
...need a New Deal, but a New Deck," bubbled Delegate Ralph Higgins of Seattle. "That New Deck is the Townsend Plan...
...Social Security Act is utterly inadequate and cruelly unjust," cried Washington's State Treasurer Otto Case. "The Townsend Plan will speed the return of prosperity...
...power on earth can stop the Townsend Plan," boomed Washington's Representative Martin Smith...
...Just as Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation," throbbed Negro Delegate W. H. Jackson of Indianapolis, "Dr. Townsend will sign the proclamation setting the industrial slaves free." Happy were Townsendites to be once more in the news. "Oh, yes, some think we are dead," barked National Secretary Robert E. Clements, "but look around you at the corpses here assembled and count them. Do we look dead to us? No undertaker will find business here...