Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nominee Hoover's secretary, George Akerson, sent Governor Bilbo a long, long telegram last week. He protested that Governor Bilbo, if quoted correctly in the press, had made "the most indecent and unworthy statement in the whole of a bitter campaign." The reported Bilboasm was to the effect that, on one of his Mississippi flood-relief trips, Mr. Hoover had "got off the train at Mound Bayou, Miss., and paid a call on a colored woman there and later danced with her." "That statement is unqualifiedly false," declared Secretary Akerson. "I was with Mr. Hoover every hour...
...unknown factors in the 1928 campaign-intolerance, hypocrisy, appetite, snobbery, conservatism, magnetism, pocket-nerve-none is more incalculable than the possession, for the first time in history, of a competitive campaign fund by the Democratic Party. Up to Sept. 30 the Republican fund reported was $1,460,834. The Democratic fund as of October 15 was $2,753,192, of which $2,555,353 had been expended. Both parties expected to spend at least $4,000,000 before the fight was done...
...fine-printed copy of the Smith acceptance speech-a gift for Mrs. Smith. Presumably it is impossible for Chairman Raskob to distinguish between what would be his normal personal expenses and the miscellaneous outlay that he must make personally in the course of running the campaign. Perhaps he has thus informally contributed more than anyone else...
Another provocative item was, "Loans: Oct. 11, 1928, through County Trust Company, 15th Street and 8th Avenue, New York City, $500,000." Chairman Raskob explained, correctly, that "it has been the practice in recent campaigns to resort to this procedure when expenditures run ahead of receipts, as they usually do." The size of the loan thus frankly announced was, however, sensational. To finance the deficit of the 1920 campaign, the Republican party made loans of $600,000 and $167,000 through the Empire Trust Co., of Manhattan...
...Chinese Puzzle." A typically political result of the Smith-Mellon skirmish was the appearance of the great Chinese Puzzle Issue in the campaign. At Sedalia, Nominee Smith said the Government's fiscal reports were ''about as near a Chinese puzzle as anything I ever saw in my life.'' Mr. Mellon retorted that this was "perhaps the most accurate statement in Governor Smith's entire speech." In Chicago, Governor Smith retorted: "If it is a Chinese puzzle to me with all my experience in diving into governmental figures running over a quarter of a century...