Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When news got out eight weeks ago that the Democratic National Committee had sold souvenir campaign books-bound in leather and autographed by the President -for $250 each, and that some of the $700,000 worth of books had been bought by corporations, which are not allowed to contribute to campaign funds, Republican Representative Bertrand H. Snell naturally demanded an investigation (TIME, June 21). Last week, while Representative Snell's resolution remained securely pigeonholed by the House Rules Committee, the subject of the campaign books cropped up again, this time in the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce investigation...
...sensational development of the week was that 40 year-old Broker Young, who with his partners Kirby and Kolbe acquired control of the huge Van Sweringen railroad empire by buying a majority in Alleghany Corp. for a mere $6,000,000, had less shrewdly spent $15,000 for 60 campaign books which he had then "scattered all over Texas and Oklahoma among my friends and relatives." Said unhappy Broker Young, whose presence in Washington had forced his wife to curtail plans for a huge dinner dance in their Newport, R. I. country house: "I would have taken soap wrappers...
...solicitors from whom Broker Young would gladly have purchased $15,000 worth of soap wrappers were a group of pressure salesmen who got a 50% commission on campaign book sales. Senator Wheeler read a letter from Manhattan Lawyer Watson Washburn who said he had been notified that one of the salesmen who had approached Broker Young was one N. M. Lichtblau. Wrote Lawyer Washburn...
...Senator Wheeler grumbled because Broker Young had not ousted leftovers from the Van Sweringen regime and complained that U. S. railroads are controlled by men who lack practical experience, the net summation of a week's rail-road investigation was the chairman's sharp comment on the campaign books. Said he: ". . . I resent the Democratic Committee going to people just prior to their coming here, and soliciting funds. . . . It might give the impression that people had to give money to get proper treatment...
...Republicans felt that they had a specially acute grudge against the Rt. Hon. Sir Dawson Bates, 60, Home Secretary of Northern Ireland. He had just taken charge of the police campaign to track down the extremists who did their best to reduce the royal visit to a shambles. Moreover, since 1922 he has been empowered by the Civil Authorities Act to jail indefinitely anybody suspected of sedition, has frequently exercised his privilege to the discomfort of Republicans...