Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name of W. Forbes Morgan as one of the great pillars of the Democratic Party. Last year Mr. Morgan, the Democrats' national treasurer, tried a new method of raising Democratic dollars. Last week that method was used again, to raise funds to reduce the $430,000 Democratic campaign deficit. From coast to coast 1,262 Victory Dinners were held. To every dinner where the price was $5 a plate or more, the Democratic Speakers Bureau dispatched a Senator, a Congressman or other notable Democrat, the rank of the speaker being roughly proportioned to the price of admission...
...basis of the President's own testimony, offered to the country in the last campaign, there is no reason to believe that the crisis arose before election day. . . . The President's chief appeal for votes was based on the claim that he had met a crisis rather than postponed one. Speaking at Denver, he declared that the Government had 'sought and found practical answers to the problems of industry, agriculture and mining.' ... If the country now faces a crisis, it is a constitutional crisis, and it is of the President's own making...
...Cloud to Coronation. To the 1932 campaign fund of Franklin Roosevelt $25,000 was chipped in by Judge Robert Worth Bingham, and he has got an amazing money's worth in return as Ambassador to the Court of St. James. The Jubilee of George & Mary, the great King-Emperor's demise, the numerous pageants of King Edward's accession, the shocker of abdication, and yet another colorful, majestic burst of accession pageantry for George VI have all thrilled the Bingham family...
...Davies chipped $17,500 into the 1936 Roosevelt campaign coffers. Months ago they leased for a reputed $10,000 quite the most magnificent house available for the Coronation. Its grounds are so extensive that one can go canoe-sailing in the lake, although this home of the second Mrs. Marshall Field III is in the heart of fashionable London. Not many years ago it was upon Mrs. Field, not Mrs. Simpson, that Edward danced attendance, lavishing flowers daily...
Died. Mark Lawrence Requa, 70, oil mining tycoon, onetime (1932-36) California Republican National Committeeman, crony and California campaign manager of Herbert Hoover in 1928 and 1932; after a fortnight's illness; in Los Angeles. As an official of the Wartime Fuel Administration he instituted gasless Sundays...