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D1703-3
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- 1935-09-02 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Townsend picnic at Spanaway Park, Labor Day 1935. Ruby Haynes, left, enrolling her grandmother, Sarah H. Williams, 87, of Midland, on the Townsend roster. At the height of the Depression, 1933, Dr. Francis E. Townsend proposed a government old age pension. Its purpose was two fold, to help end the Depression by stimulating the economy and to aid the elderly, one of the groups hardest hit. Over 10,000 people attended this Labor Day picnic to hear more about the plan. (T. Times, 9/3/1935, p. 1).
Older people; Townsend Clubs of America (Tacoma); Haynes, Ruby; Williams, Sarah;