[4] Raised in Wantagh, Long Island,[6] Townsend was the first in her family to finish high school. Townsend began to organize around his Old Age Revolving Pension Plan (Townsend Plan) in September 1933 and had created a movement within months. from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1984. www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,897520,00.html. Francis Townsend, the second of six children, was born in Fairbury, Illinois, on 13th January, 1867. Frances was born Aug. 27, 1927, to the late William W. and Mary T. Dixon.Frances was a great friend, lover of from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1984. Activision Blizzard's president for corporate affairs Frances Townsend has stepped down as an executive sponsor of the ABK Women's Network as of two weeks ago. 14 chapters | Experienced public board independent director and committee chair. Townsend invested much energy in the Union Party and organizing voters to vote for candidates who supported the Townsend Plan. Wife of Rutland Snowdon, Bishop Francis Townsend was born on January 13, 1867, on a farm in Illinois. Supporters of the Townsend Plan continued to agitate for higher benefits after the Social Security Acts passage in August 1935 and reached its peak of support in the months after the law was enacted. He now lost the support of most of the leading figures in the movement. We might as well take a child from the nursery, give him a nurse, and protect him from every experience that life affords." Seond she married Capt. Social Security - the act that established social welfare in American culture - owes its passage, in part, to the efforts of an elderly doctor from California named Dr. Francis Townsend. Roosevelt won by 27,751,612 votes to 16,681,913 and carried the electoral college 523 to 8. In 1887, he left school and moved to California with his brother, hoping to strike it rich in the Los Angeles land boom. Coughlin responded by calling the Townsend Plan "economic insanity". The . By relying on regressive taxation and withdrawing vast sums to build up reserves, the act did untold economic mischief. (7) One historian has pointed out that "Townsend meetings featured frequent denunciations of cigarettes, lipstick, necking, and other signs of urban depravity. Frances was president of the Counter Extremism Project. Frances' was a Greek American roofer and her mother was an Irish American office manager for a construction company. in political science and a B.S. [21][27], In July 2022, Townsend helped found a group of U.S. business and policy leaders who share the goal of constructively engaging with China in order to improve U.S.-China relations. For example, The Jackson Daily News reported: "The average Mississippian can't imagine himself chipping in to pay pensions for able-bodied Negroes to sit around in idleness on front galleries, supporting all their kinfolks on pensions, while cotton and corn crops are crying for workers to get them out of the grass." The Social Security Act created a national system of old-age insurance in which most employees were compelled to participate. The vice-president and twelve officials at national headquarters resigned. Her first husband was Francis Dade II of Stafford Co., VA whom she married in 1683. Its like a teacher waved a magic wand and did the work for me. Frances Townsend was born about 1666. Lepke won only 882,479 votes. But what of the millions of people who through long years of thrift and saving have been providing their own security? ClustrMaps. And even this meager and still very badly constructed plan had to be pushed through against a strange inertness on his part. (18) The British journalist, Henry N. Brailsford, argued that Roosevelt was doing what David Lloyd George had done between 1906 and 1914, but at a quicker tempo. He died in Los Angeles on Sept. 1, 1960. in political science and a B.S. These thrifty people have seen onehalf of their retirement benefits wiped out by the Roosevelt inflation that has cut the purchasing power of the dollar in two. (12), Roosevelt told the American people: "We must begin now to make provision for the future. Frances M. "Fran" Fragos Townsend (born December 28, 1961) is an American lawyer and business executive who served as Homeland Security Advisor to United States President George W. Bush from 2004 to 2007, and was formerly the executive vice president for corporate affairs, corporate secretary, and compliance chief officer for Activision Blizzard, until September of 2022, due to Microsoft . On 2nd February, 1937, Roosevelt made a speech attacking the Supreme Court for its actions over New Deal legislation. Townsend is president of the Counter Extremism Project. She was born in Mineola, New York, to her parents John Fragos and Dorothy Townsend. He met with presidents Truman and Eisenhower. (20)Growth of Townsend ClubsFrancis Townsend claimed that Roosevelt's social security legislation was completely inadequate and left millions of elderly unprotected. Townsend argued that his plan would help the economy as older people would be compelled to surrender their positions to the younger unemployed and the spending of the pension money would produce a demand for goods and services that would create still more jobs. We all know that there was nothing 'great' about the Great Depression. === Hotten's Lists Page 119-121. The following month, Townsend's partner, Robert Earl Clements, decided to resign. She also currently serves on the boards of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and the International Republican Institute. While serving as executive vice president of Activision Blizzard, an open letter signed by over 2,000 employees called for Frances to stand by her word to step down as Executive Sponsor of the ABK Employee Womens Network due to her criticized response to a California Department of Fair Employment and Housing lawsuit. When he refused to answer questions, he was convicted of contempt of Congress. In the words of Townsend, the movement embraced people "who believe in the Bible, believe in God, cheer when the flag passes by, the Bible Belt solid Americans." At the age of 11, Frances penned letters requesting that she be allowed to be an altar boy, first to her priest, then to the bishop, the cardinal, and ultimately to the Vatican. [11] Townsend also ran the office's organized crime unit, where she conducted one-on-one interviews with members of the Gambino crime family. Local groups organized Townsend Clubs to support the idea, and by January 1934, Townsend said 3,000 groups had begun. Francis Townsend was born poor and would struggle with poverty and unemployment throughout much of his life. They selected William Lepke as their presidential candidate. 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. Millions of people, in fact, saw it as the solution to the Depression. Subscribe to our Spartacus Newsletter and keep up to date with the latest articles. (19)This reform came under attack from right-wing conservatives. 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". Coughlin responded by calling the Townsend Plan "economic insanity". (10)Social Security Board Poster, The measures taken by President Roosevelt did help 2 million people to find jobs by 1934 but unemployment remained high at 11.3%. Dr. Francis Everitt Townsend was born on January 13, 1867 in Illinois to a poor family. Frances Townshend b. Stixwould, Lincolnshire, England (United Kingdom) . In 1937, Townsend was asked to testify before the Senate on allegations of corruption in the Townsend Plan movement. The names of her parents are unknown. (17)Townsend Plan Weekly (August, 1935), Roosevelt told Anne O'Hare McCormick: "In five years I think we have caught up twenty years. She previously served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism. With those taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my social security program." 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. Main went on to defeat his Democratic opponent in the by-election in December. Townsend saved money by accelerating her course load, waiting tables and working as a dormitory adviser. Create an account to start this course today. [22] While serving as executive vice president of Activision Blizzard, an open letter signed by over 2,000 employees called for Townsend "to stand by her word to step down as Executive Sponsor of the ABK Employee Women's Network" due to her criticized response to a California Department of Fair Employment and Housing lawsuit. And when he did finally consent to a bill, like so many good ideas that went into his mind, it came out badly twisted. [1] She previously served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism. He served on the Western Front and had to deal with the influenza epidemic at the end of the conflict. Lookup the home address, phone numbers, email address for this person. John Withers; and Third, she married Rice Hooe about 1699. [14] She was appointed Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism on May 28, 2004. 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. Charles Coughlins National Union for Social Justice and Union Party. Francis Townsend was born on January 13, 1867, on a farm in Illinois. Sickness, in normal times the main cause of joblessness, was disregarded. These thrifty people have seen onehalf of their retirement benefits wiped out by the Roosevelt inflation that has cut the purchasing power of the dollar in two. When Francis Townsend was born in 1633, in England, United Kingdom, his father, Capt. The editor and most of the staff of the Townsend National Weekly left their jobs in protest against Townsend's comments. The full measure of Roosevelt's hopeless misunderstanding of this subject will come when security will be most needed and most absent. In 1984, she received her Juris Doctor from the University of San Diego School of Law, and in 1986, attended the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London, England. [14] Townsend served as the public face of the Bush administration while it was under criticism for allegedly overreacting to dated intelligence[12] in its decision to raise terrorist threat levels during an election season. For the U.S. It obtained a great deal of public support and by 1935 his Townsend Club had over 5 million members. 1606 1606. Dr. Francis Everitt Townsend, born into a poor farm family, worked as a physician and health provider. She married three times: First to Frances Dade about 1683 ; Second, she married Capt. On his return to he moved to Long Beach to run a dry ice factory. He returned to South Dakota after the war, but ill health aggravated by the harsh winter led him to move to southern California. 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. Pierre Tomlinson, the Townsend Plan's head organizer in its first year, testified that Townsend had told him that he would make "handfuls" of money from the scheme. However, President Franklin D. Roosevelt commuted Townsend's 30-day prison sentence. Townsend argued that his plan would help the economy as older people would be compelled to surrender their positions to the younger unemployed and the spending of the pension money would produce a demand for goods and services that would create still more jobs. In 1887, he left school and moved to California with his brother, hoping to strike it rich in the Los Angeles land boom. (6)Walter Lippmann observed: "If Dr. Townsend's medicine were a good remedy, the more people the country could find to support in idleness the better off it would be." (16), Despite its faults the Social Security Act of 1935 was a new landmark in American history. Her parents were determined that their only child should receive a college education, but could not afford to send her to school. Jone Johnson Lewis is a women's history writer who has been involved with the women's movement since the late 1960s. (24), The investigation discovered that the organisation had raised over a million dollars, with Townsend taking out a salary of $12,000 in the past 12 months. Townsend was appointed to this position by President Bush on May 28, 2004. She grew up in Wantagh, Long Island, and was the first in her family to finish high school. She is forever remembered by her siblings Cory (Karmenique . Clarke. Connect to 5,000+ Townsend profiles on Geni, Aug 29 1658 - Horncastle, Linconshire, England. "Dr. Francis Townsend, Old Age Public Pension Organizer." We must begin now to make provision for the future. The pressure increased when Townsend handed in to President Franklin D. Roosevelt a petition supporting the Old Age Revolving Pension Plan that had been signed by over 20 million people. Most of them from among otherwise conservative people, that politicians throughout the country had to take these ideas into consideration. copyright 2003-2023 Study.com. He won every state but Maine and Vermont. Because of the Great Depression, he soon lost that job. That's right. In no other welfare system in the world did the state shirk all responsibility for old-age indigency and insist that funds be taken out of the current earnings of workers. "[5], A Congressional committee was established in February 1936 to investigate Townsend. The provisions of the act also encouraged states to deal with social problems. The total cost would be greater than $20 billion a year, but he saw the pensions as a solution to the Depression. 26, 1726. Compiled by John Bailey Calvert Nicklin. The Plan was organized by real estate salesman Robert Clements, who made Townsend only a figurehead while the Plan expanded to thousands of clubs in many states. Bachelor in Political Science, Bachelor of Science in Psychology, American University, Washington, 1982. Frances M. Fragos Townsend is the former Homeland Security Advisor to United States President George W. Bush and television personality. Townsend told his followers that if they should vote for either Lepke or Alfred Landon, the Republican candidate. Mineola, New York, Nassau County, United States of America. 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. St. Paul's Parish, Stafford County, Virginia, http://vagenweb.org/tylers_bios/vol1-35.htm, WikiTree profile Townshend-21 created through the import of MOORMAN FAMILY.GED on May 31, 2011 by. Three days after Christmas in 1961, Frances Mary Fragos was born in Mineola, New York, an upper middle-class village about an hour and a half east of Manhattan in Nassau County on Long Island. He joined with such populists as the Rev. Dorman, John Frederick;Virginia M. Meyer. Townsend was president of the Counter Extremism Project. Frances was a Greek American roofer and her mother was an Irish American office manager for a construction company. Roosevelt struck the most terrible blow at the security of the masses of the people while posing as the generous donor of security for all." Later, he started medical school in Omaha, funding his education while working as a salesman. Lewis, Jone Johnson. 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. Obituary. Raised in Wantagh, Long Island, Townsend was the first in her family to finish high school. Without you I am powerless but with you I can remake the world for mankind." (2021, February 16). According to William E. Leuchtenburg: "The British reforms, which rested on the conviction that the profit system was compatible with aid to the underdog, had rendered working-class life less precarious and was one of the important reasons that the depression struck Britain less heavily than America." [10], Townsend began her prosecutorial career in 1985, serving as an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, New York. In return, Townsend denounced them all as "self-serving traitors." He was born in Fairbury, Illinois, in 1867. As a national security analyst, she contributes to coverage of homeland security, foreign policy counter-terrorism, and intelligence. The nation's GDP registered a 17% increase on 1933 but national income was still little better than half of what it had been in 1929. on Aug 1635, Townsend, his wife Frances, aged 21 and son Frances 2 were listed as passengers for Virginia on the Globe. The act also set up a federal-state system of unemployment insurance, and provided national aid to the states, on a matching basis, for care of dependent mothers and children, the crippled, and the blind, and for public health services. Richard Townsend, age 14, came to Virginia 1620 in the Abigaile. After the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression, he found work as a public health officer "where he witnessed first-hand the effects of poverty on the aged." [6], While being questioned Townsend became angry at the questioning and stormed out. Many in Congress, pressured to support the Townsend Plan, preferred being able to support the Social Security Act, which for the first time provided a safety net for Americans too old to work. She is 60 years old. Essentially, half the national income would be directed to the eight percent of the population over the age of 60. [1] After Townsend contracted swamp malaria as an infant, the Townsend family moved to Nebraska where Townsend had two years of high school education. Townsend claimed that his Old Age Revolving Pension Plan could be financed by a 2 per cent tax on business transactions. He was able to obtain an appointment as a health officer in Long Beach, where he observed the effects of the Depression, especially on older Americans. Known as the "Townsend Plan", this proposal would pay every person over age 60 $200 per month, with the requirement it all be spent quickly. John Withers ; and Third, she married Rice Hooe about 1699. She is a former faculty member of the Humanist Institute. [1] In 1898, Townsend borrowed $1,000 from his father and moved to Southern California to develop a hay farming business. She married Thornton Augustine Washington on 31 March 1786, in King George, King George, Virginia, United States. In March 2021, Frances joined Activision Blizzard as executive vice president for corporate affairs, corporate secretary, and chief compliance officer. Since the plan simply redistributed wealth, it could not create any new wealth and would thus do very little to curb the Great Depression. (19), This reform came under attack from right-wing conservatives. The family moved to Nebraska, where Francis attended Franklin Academy. 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