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...Francis E. Townsend's 13-year-old vision of pie-in-the-sky was back again, as plain as mother's lemon meringue. Last week, 5,000 "senior citizens" stormed Washington for the first postwar national convention of the Townsend clubs of America. Without glasses, any one of them could see the vision of pensions for all citizens over 60. The trick was to make the 80th Congress...
...Townsendites met in Washington's 5,000-seat Uline Arena. The meeting got off with a whoop when two exuberant ladies saw California's placid, lantern-jawed Dr. Townsend, the 80-year-old founder, entering the jammed hall. They jumped up and began to chant...
Michigan, Michigan, Townsend clubs galore...
Their voices were drowned out by cheers. Tiny, 60-year-old Mrs. Ella Flickinger, of East Cleveland, rose, fixed her eye on Dr. Townsend and a stage full of tentatively sympathetic Congressmen, and yelled...
Before the first meeting ended Idaho's tent-show Senator Glen Taylor had yodeled and played his guitar, and Congressman Homer Angell of Oregon had urged the elders "not to despair or grow weary." But Dr. Townsend said not a word. He sat on the platform, twiddling his thumbs...