Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...examined. His wife and his aunt (Mrs. Charles B. Wood) were in the committee room when the Governor sank his tall, lean frame into the witness chair, turned a saddened eye on Senator Reed, recalled the expenditure of $43,000 of his own personal money on the campaign...
Later the Pepper expenditures were explored and even the seasoned members of the committee professed to be dazed. His campaign cost $1,087,000. Of this amount $390,000 had been borrowed and there is more than $100,000 to be paid. The Mellons' Pittsburgh committee had raised $306,000, and two other committees had each raised $125,000. One Pepper campaign manager testified that he had been the victim of misplaced confidence in expending money to promote additional registration of voters who later voted for Vare instead of Pepper...
...through check stubs, typewritten balance sheets (suspiciously fresh and pat, thought Investigator Reed), the committee determined that the Pennsylvania primary had cost about $2,000,000 altogether. It was ten times as expensive as the celebrated Newberry outlay in Michigan and exceeded the entire cost of the 1924 Democratic campaign...
Significance. All that the Senate Committee can do is to throw up its hands in horror at the Pennsylvania expenditures, and declare them against public policy? unless actual corruption is discovered. The findings of the committee will undoubtedly make campaign material for some candidates, will make campaign managers cautious in the use of funds...
Endowments. The era of physical expansion at the colleges had by no means, ended nor the endowment-raising era to maintain buildings and support the pedagogy that is to operate within them. The biggest campaign announced during the year was that of New York University, for 73 millions in the next decade. (During 1923-24 the total gifts to all colleges, not counting state appropriations, was only 91 millions...