Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refute this charge rose the State Committee's Executive Director John G. Stutz, a Democrat appointed by Governor Landon's Democratic predecessor, Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring. Last week the original subject of dispute was overshadowed when Director Stutz complained, in a statement released through Landon campaign headquarters in Topeka, that he had been refused information concerning WPA's administrative costs. His requests for access to the records, said he, had been denied by the State WPAdministrator, ignored by Federal WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins. Indignantly Director Stutz pointed to an order of last June in which Administrator...
...source of Broadcaster Hard's expose, Administrator Hopkins declared : "He gets all his stuff from Sam Jones, who's an expert at cooking up this sort of material. He used to work for the Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution and he put on that big campaign down at the Talmadge convention to smear...
...question of relief corruption, long a skulker in the flickering outskirts of national politics, suddenly leaped last week into the blazing firelight of the 1936 Presidential campaign as an issue of prime importance. For months unbiased voters have scratched their puzzled heads while Republicans snarled that the Democrats were brazenly turning last year's $4,880,000,000 relief appropriation into a campaign fund and Democrats replied that the Republican charge was merely the familiar old bleat of the Outs against the fictitious misdeeds of the Ins. Until last week neither party had cared or was able to back...
...that State, was promptly halted by a Federal injunction on the grounds that no State legislative body had a right to investigate Federal activities. Republicans have lately demanded an investigation into the political aspects of Pennsylvania's relief by the U. S. Senate's Committee on Campaign Expenditures. Democrats have demanded that the Committee investigate large Pennsylvania employers charged with coercing their employes into the Republican line...
...stuff." A few hours before Nominee Landon was to deliver a campaign speech on relief, Harry Hopkins forehandedly revealed total costs of WPA and its administration to Sept. 1. The total...