Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...qualified voter over 50 who has lived a year in California. The money would be payable in $1 warrants, which would be annually "self liquidating" because whoever has one in his possession any Thursday in the year must affix a special 2? stamp to it. Treasurer of the Petition Campaign Committee sponsoring the plan is freckled Len R. Reynolds, onetime taxi driver turned firebrand. Last week, Treasurer Reynolds' receipts were estimated...
...closed the recently reopened Maytag plant. Reason: Maytag rejected a settlement proposed by Kraschel arbitrators, started the plant against the Governor's wishes, precipitated fighting between non-union and C. I. O. men. While Kraschel troopers ruled Newton and the Governor garnered much labor support in his campaign for reelection, NLRB Examiner Madison Hill heard testimony that Maytag, local authorities and Judge Homer A. Fuller wanted to smash...
Senator Pat Harrison was vacationing in California, Senator Joe O'Mahoney was in Wyoming resting up for his Monopoly Investigation. So in Washington last week the committee charged with policing 1938's Senate campaigns was stripped down to dutiful little Senator Sheppard of Texas (chairman), urbane Senator White of Maine (the sole Republican), lumbering Senator David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts. In an air-conditioned office at the Capitol, this trio scanned reports from ten field investigators, kept the press informed of its opinions on the political campaign...
...Committee indicated several States where it was looking into campaign troubles, among them...
California, where Senator McAdoo's opponents charged a 5% salary "shakedown" of Federal employes for his campaign fund. Mr. McAdoo's reply: slander & libel by "desperate...