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D10332-1
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- 1940-10-11 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Social critic Dr. Francis Townsend, creator of the Townsend Plan to end the Great Depression by providing pensions to senior citizens, speaks with Tacoma Mayor Harry P. Cain on October 11, 1940. His supporters formed Townsend Clubs; five million members were counted at the cause's peak. Dr. Townsend was in Tacoma to address his followers at the Jason Lee auditorium. He was opposed to Franklin D. Roosevelt's run for a third term and advocated voting Republican. (T. Times 10/8/1940, pg. 2)
Townsend, Francis Everett, 1867-1960; Activists; Cain, Harry P., 1906-1979; Mayors--Tacoma--1940-1950;