Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubt that the Senate would confirm him when it meets. Aged 60, circumspect, alert, "regular" pince-nezzed, he had done well as a Chicago lawyer, served faithfully as a G. 0. Politician in Illinois (five times State Chairman, three times National Delegate, twice National Committeeman, and for the Coolidge campaign National Secretary). This year he was to have been vice chairman of the National Finance Committee, but he said he would resign that job at once and "familiarize myself with the great office for which I have been chosen...
When Chairman Work of the Republican National Committee said that the Hoover campaign would be conducted on a budget of less than $3,000.000 (TIME, July 9), there was a general raising of eyebrows among political commentators, a general lowering of mouth-corners by local G. 0. P. bosses. Some $5,300,000 was recorded in the Harding-Coolidge campaign and more than $3,000,000 in the Coolidge-Dawes. This year, Chairman Work said, "We have candidates who will not need so large a sum." It sounded admirable, but a revised estimate was not unexpected...
Last week, the Democracy's chairman of finance, Banker Herbert H. Lehman of Manhattan, frankly announced that no limit would be placed upon the size or volume of contributions to the Smith campaign. The G. 0. P.'s Treasurer, Banker Joseph R. Nutt of Cleveland, immediately issued a revision of Chairman Work's $3,000,000 estimate. He mentioned $4,000,000 as a possible total and removed all idea of a limit to G. 0. P. contributions, individual or aggregate. He, too, referred to previous G. O. P. campaigns and said: "We have a harder fight...
Postmistress Esther McCollum of Conyers, Ga., told that she had always understood she must pay 5% of her salary, or some $100 per annum, into the campaign chest of the Republicans responsible for her appointment...
...hear some old dirt in Washington. Postmaster General New read letters and affidavits showing how postmasterships had been sold and levied upon in the Wilson days of 1917-20. The system, he implied, dated back to Civil War times and was common to both parties. Democrats demurred that the campaign contribution law had been changed since Wilson days and that the Georgia Republican State Central Committee had refined the illegal sale of patronage to the point of card-indexing its customers. Mr. New was requested to produce more information. The investigation continued...