Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Father Coughlin and Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend as his principal supporters, Nominee Lemke has conducted his campaign on a thesis all his own : The Government borrows money from the bankers, pays them interest, re-deposits its money with them, borrows it again. "If the Government can do this for the international bankers, why can't it do it for us all?" On the ballot under various titles (Union Party, Union Progressive, Third Party, Royal Oak Party) in 34 States, Nominee Lemke last week hopped about like a winged knight on a chessboard, spent...
...armies fight on their stomachs, so politicians fight on their campaign chests. Last week in Washington the Clerk of the House made public the official reports of campaign receipts & expenditures, up to within a fortnight of the election. With these and other facts published last week voters could get some idea of how much it costs to live four years rent free in the White House...
Candidates. Only major candidate to report any personal campaign expenditures was Franklin D. Roosevelt. On a mimeographed blank he scrawled in his own hand under the heading Receipts, "None." Under the heading Expenditures...
...expenditures at $4,949,428. This, however, did not tell the whole story. Republicans were making desperate appeals for funds because their receipts had fallen off so badly that they feared that they would have a $2,000,000 deficit by the time all the bills for the campaign were in. Democrats said the reason the Republican well had gone dry was that businessmen did not want to waste money on a lost cause. GOPartisans blamed their cash shortage on fear of Congressional investigation, income tax assessments and other reprisals from the New Deal...
Democrats-Receipts of the Democratic National Committee, including cash on hand at the beginning of the campaign, were $2,417,788; expenditures were $2,914,546. But this, like the Republican report, did not tell the full story. The Roosevelt Nominators collected $288,049, the Roosevelt Agricultural Committee collected some $140,835, the Good Neighbor League...