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CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE 'United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy rigtu) (Received 271 h .March, 1.35 p.m.) WASHINGTON, 26th March. A Congressional inquiry which is expected to have more than’ordinary social and political significance opened to-day with an investigation of the Townsend Plan in the huge House of Representatives Caucus Room which was significantly crowded with persons apparently about sixty years of age. qt which the Townsend Plan would begin its 200 dollar monthly payments. The first witness was Mr Robert Clements, National Secretary of the Townsend organisation, who," however, has just resigned owing to disagreement over the iounder’s “political” activities. Mr Bleoents, who is a real estate agent, frankly confessed that he had never made any “fundamental study of economics.” As a matter of fact he very ingenuously admitted complete innocence of knowledge of the terminology of economies. “Do you know the difference betwen economy and political economy?” he was asked. “I don’t know that I do,” he replied. Both his and Townsend’s experience in world affairs was chiefly dealing in Californian real estate.
Mr Townsend himself is expected to he an early witness.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 27 March 1936, Page 5
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188TOWNSEND PUN Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 27 March 1936, Page 5
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