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Biggest contributor to the Democratic Campaign was John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers which gave $100,000 to the National Committee and $50,000 to the Roosevelt Nominators. Biggest individual contributor was Walter A. Jones, member of the Democratic Finance Committee, $40,000: next biggest, $25,000 each, were Philadelphia's Curtis Bok. Chicago's Lucius B. Manning. James Roosevelt contributed $4.293 and Franklin Roosevelt's good friend Joseph P. Kennedy lent the Committee...
Radio, etc The high cost of campaigning this year is due in part simply to big ger and better expenditures on the same old things for which money has been spent for years. Something new in big campaign costs is radio. Such a minor party as the Communists will have a total broadcasting bill of $35,000 with National Broadcasting alone. The same firm announced that the Republican National Committee had up to last week spent $265,000 for use of its networks, and the Democratic National Committee -which had the advantage ear lier in the campaign of "free...
...System declined to make public the amounts of its bills for political broadcasting but the grand total of the two big systems and their smaller competitors will probably be between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000. It will not be surprising if the Republican expenditures for the entire campaign run over $7,500,000, if Democratic expenditures run about $5,000,000. Many a voter may feel that this is a lot of money to spend on a campaign. It is spent, however, to pick a President who will last four years, a Congress which will last two years...
...Deal campaigners have said a great deal in general about the blessings of the Government's Old-Age Pension Law, practically nothing in particular about the tax feature of that act. Beginning Jan. 1 a tax of 1% per year will be levied on the pay of every U. S. wage earner, great & small.* An equal amount will also be collected by the Treasury from the employer. Example: A factory superintendent 40 years old makes $3,000 per year; his annual tax to begin with will be $30 (1% of $3,000); the factory management must match...
...given Franklin Roosevelt the wholehearted support of the nation's biggest newspaper; Partner Robert Rutherford McCormick, as boss of the House's Chicago Tribune (circulation: 784,000), has made the nation's second biggest newspaper its most rabid anti-Roosevelt sheet. In a Presidential campaign, a house thus divided against itself cannot fail...