Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Money. By Labor Day 1932 the Republican National Committee had spent $96,203 on its Presidential campaign, final cost of which was $2,611,380. Last week Treasurer Charles Barnett ("Barney") Goodspeed, husky Chicago socialite and charitarian, reported to the Clerk of the U. S. House of Representatives that the National Committee had this year received $2,050,655 between June 1 and Sept. 1, spent $1,787,811. Balance on hand was nearly half a million.* Donations of $100 or more accounted...
Passions & Prejudices. On July 2, 1936, at a Chicago Party banquet in his honor, new National Chairman Hamilton seconded Nominee Landon's call for a campaign of public education, declared: "We shall appeal throughout the campaign to the intelligence and not to the passions and prejudices of the citizens...
...Deal of favoring big corporations at the expense of small business. He warned of the "makings of a dictatorship." He accused New Dealers of aiming to replace the Constitution with "some other mechanism" or simply with "the vague principles and aspirations of Franklin Roosevelt." "This is a campaign," trumpeted he, "to determine whether the American Government shall continue to be the concern of the American people . . . or whether it shall be surrendered to the sole concern of Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...such moderates that moderate Alf Landon, on the counsel of such intimates as Lacy Haynes, Roy Roberts, William Allen White and Charles Phelps Taft, had aimed his campaign. Conservatives and other New Deal haters, he and his advisers figured, would be sure to vote for him in any event. To win, he needed the votes of the middle-of-the-roaders who liked much of the New Deal program but were uneasy about New Deal performance. On that assumption, Nominee Landon had up to last week pursued a campaign of sweet reasonableness, avoiding any violent or wholesale condemnation...
...program was that it, combined with Nominee Landon's deficiency in oratorical fire, had failed to catch on, to kindle the nation's enthusiasm. After the strong beginning supplied by his pre-convention buildup, his bold convention telegram and his overwhelming nomination. Nominee Landon's first campaign tour had been accompanied by a Republican slump. Meanwhile John Hamilton and Frank Knox, both abler orators than the nominee, had been drumming into the country's head the idea that Republicans planned to throw out the New Deal bag & baggage, the baby with the bath. Also meanwhile, Franklin...