Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Issue- As observers waited for outlines of the coming campaign to emerge from this week's doings at Cleveland, of two things they could last week feel certain: 1) no amount of clarioning about Crises and Crusades could obscure the fact that the central issue of the election would be Franklin D. Roosevelt, personally. 2) The direction pointed by the Republican leadership would not be opposite to Franklin Roosevelt's direction but almost parallel to it. These factors would make for a campaign of personalities and fine distinctions, a campaign of mighty mudslinging, immense oratorical confusion...
...Jackson, dinners; for Jefferson, dances; for Roosevelt, dollars; such has been Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley's program for raising a campaign chest for 1936. The rich who can be persuaded to part with money for nothing this year are giving to the Liberty League. Therefore, Mr. Farley has had to turn to those who want something for their money. For Jackson's birthday he gave dinners priced up to $50 a cover. For Jefferson's birthday he gave dances at assorted prices. For Franklin Roosevelt's nomination he last week devised a scheme to give...
...Congress' banquet there were further alarms. President S. Wells Utley of Detroit Steel Casting Co. prophesied: "This coming campaign ... is one of the great decisive battles of the human race, and upon it hangs the future of our civilization. . . ." President Alex Dow of Detroit Edison Co. rambled through the question of the relations of women with business. The program closed on a foreboding note. Mme Alexandrine Cantacuzene, granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant, talked on "Property Confiscation under a Revolutionary Government...
...President beamed. Charlie, he said meaningly, was "hooked," would not need a job for a long time to come. And it was evident that if Franklin Roosevelt was indifferent to what might pass last week in Congress, he still had a lively interest in the campaign which lay beyond Congress' closing...
...Jones has a particularly warm feeling for Manufacturers Trust because President Harvey Dow Gibson was the first big Manhattan banker to accept RFC money when Mr. Jones was staging his great campaign to build up the capital of the nation's banks...