Old age pensions -- California

Abstract

Collection represents the files of the Van Nuys chapter of the California State Townsend Plan organization and includes selected letters from members of Congress, Townsend Plan publications, conference packets, and minutes, 1963-1977.

Abstract Earl Tifft was the state director of the California club (chapter) of the Townsend Plan. The collection includes Townsend newsletters and convention materials, Townsend Plan constitution and bylaws, dissolution information, and testimony to the Ways and Means committee, International Members Council interviews, minutes, correspondence, financial records, reel-to-reel audio, memorabilia, a photograph, broadsides, and material from the Le Habre Townsend Club, the Pasedena Townsend Club, the...

Abstract

Includes minutes and financial records of the Greater Los Angeles Advisory Council of Townsend Clubs of Southern California as well as correspondence and newsletters issued by John Doyle Elliott, Townsend Plan lobbyist, and issues of California echoes, 1.