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D1703-7
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- 1935-09-02 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Townsend picnic at Spanaway Park, 1935. The huge Labor Day crowd stood in the shade of fir trees on this warm, sunny day to listen to Otto Case, at microphone. He was speaking about the old age pension plan proposed by Dr. Francis E. Townsend, commonly called the Townsend Plan. The ground support for this plan was so great that it led to the adoption of the Social Security Act. (T. Times, 9/3/1935, p. 1).
Case, Otto; Older people; Townsend Clubs of America (Tacoma); Crowds; Public speaking;