in political science and a B.S. Disturbed not only by his own plight but by that of others like him - elderly people from Iowa and Kansas who had gone west in the 1920's and now faced the void of unemployment with slim resources." = George West. Frances Snowden (born Townsend) in MyHeritage family trees (Garland Livingstone Cole Web Site) view all Immediate Family. ". He finally decided he wanted to enter the medical field, so he went to medical school in Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated in the early 1900s. Mary Frances Townsend Hooe (1663-1726) - Find a Grave Memorial He moved around to a few different. But it is in every respect a pathetically inadequate law. (12), Roosevelt told the American people: "We must begin now to make provision for the future. The economists generally opposed this form of taxation as being unfairly advantageous to large, vertically integrated enterprises that produced goods from the raw material all the way to the finished, saleable product over intermediary operations that were involved in only one or two steps of this process. Another helpful feature of unemployment insurance is the incentive it will give to employers to plan more carefully in order that unemployment may be prevented by the stabilizing of employment itself. Arthur Krock wrote in the The New York Times that the New Deal had won "the most overwhelming victory in the history of American politics". If liberal government continues over another ten years we ought to be contemporary somewhere in the late Nineteen Forties." Bachelor in Political Science, Bachelor of Science in Psychology, American University, Washington, 1982. She had children from her first marriage, and two from her union with Rice Hooe: . [1] According to Townsend's autobiographical memoir, New Horizons (1943), his plan originated when he looked out his window one morning in the early depth of the Depression and saw two old women, dressed in once nice, now tattered clothes, picking through his garbage cans looking for food. A LITTLE PRINCESS by Frances Hodgson Burnett | Goodreads Later (April 1940), the remains from the Hooe Family Cemetery were reinterred at Saint Paul's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Owens, King George County, Virginia.[1]. She is survived by her father, Michael (Margaret) Sideboard; her mother, Eva Washington; her godmother Sharon Collins; and her godson De'Jaun Jones. https://www.thoughtco.com/francis-townsend-biography-4155321 (accessed May 1, 2023). Townsend claimed that his Old Age Revolving Pension Plan could be financed by a 2 per cent tax on business transactions. The unemployment insurance part of the legislation will not only help to guard the individual in future periods of lay-off against dependence upon relief, but it will, by sustaining purchasing power, cushion the shock of economic distress. Lepke won only 882,479 votes. Roosevelt won by 27,751,612 votes to 16,681,913 and carried the electoral college 523 to 8. He pointed out that seven of the nine judges (Charles Hughes, Willis Van Devanter, George Sutherland, Harlan Stone, Owen Roberts, Benjamin Cardozo and Pierce Butler) had been appointed by Republican presidents. And even this meager and still very badly constructed plan had to be pushed through against a strange inertness on his part. She married three times: First to Frances Dade about 1683. Townsendites wrote to Congress, put ads in newspapers, held conventions, and eventually collected tens of thousands of signatures to petition the government to make the Townsend Plan a reality. [1] At age 50, Townsend enlisted as a doctor in the army one year before the end of World War I. It proposes, by means of old age pensions, to help those who have reached the age of retirement to give up their jobs and thus give to the younger generation greater opportunities for work and to give to all a feeling of security as they look toward old age. But what of the millions of people who through long years of thrift and saving have been providing their own security?