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...last week Dr. Clinton Wunder of Los Angeles swept aside all workaday objections to the Townsend Plan. "We believe that God is on our side," cried he, "and with God all things are possible...
...Amen! Amen!" answered many & many a man and woman who, passionately convinced that it would be possible to pay every U. S. citizen over 60 pension of $200 per month (TIME, Jan. 14), had traveled to Chicago for the first national convention of the Townsend Clubs...
...pleas for moral support. All Mr. Eccles knew was that something drastic was happening to his bill. Indeed, the subcommittee was so secretive that banker-baiting newspapers suspected skulduggery. When it was discovered that Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank had been in touch with Messrs. Glass and Townsend on the telephone, the Senators were loudly accused of selling out to Wall Street...
...smart? . . . What is that voucher for? Why is there a 2% discount marked on it? . . . How much does newsprint cost? . . . How fast can the presses turn out 1,000 copies? . . ." He was still asking questions when he rushed through Harvard (cum laude) in three years while taking Professor Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland's famed English 12 course and working on the editorial staffs of all three campus publications-Crimson, Advocate, Lampoon. He asked questions when he accompanied his father to newspaper conventions, and when, after graduation in 1920, he started on the Register & Tribune as a plain reporter...
...Sophomore Crew Manager competition, Benjamin R. Townsend, of Paoli, Penn., was elected second assistant manager, Thomas J. Darcey, Jr., of Belmont, second associate manager, and C. Vaughn Ferguson, Jr., of Schenectady, N. Y., interhouse crew manager...