Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late boss, Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, told how charges for "Pop," averaging $750 a week which appeared on the racket's books, were payments to Jimmy Hines,-* said that in addition the racket put up $32,000 to warm the Tammany political wigwam in the city campaign of 1933. Under cross-examination Witness Weinberg admitted he had been a burglar, a gangster, gunman, perjurer, but he denied that it was he who murdered Dutch Schultz. At one point. Defendant Hines, who had been keeping up his spirits by reading his fan mail in court, lost his temper when Weinberg...
...This plum was originally contingent on Jimmy Hines's conviction but Republicans, convinced that the trial will not be finished before the convention, were reported willing to take the gamble. Result: Democratic leaders tried to persuade either Governor Herbert Lehman or Senator Robert Wagner to abandon his Senatorial campaign, and stand for Governor against Jimmy Hines's prosecutor...
...last week went 70,000 steamer clams, 4,250 milk-fed chickens, 900 watermelons, three truckloads of roasting corn, 60 chefs, 250 waiters, 36 bands, 8,200 personally invited Republicans from twelve States and 11,000 uninvited Republicans. Formal purpose of the occasion was to launch the Republican Congressional campaign of 1938. The host, who laid out $30,000 for the party, was buoyant Homer E. Capehart, "the daddy of the electric automatic phonograph," now vice president & sales director of Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., after building up his own Capehart Corp., which now runs without...
...Cambridge, Mass. Democrat Thomas H. Leary, also without his knowledge or consent, was made a candidate for his party's State Convention. Democrat Leary promptly made a campaign speech, "I'm against me." Announced his slogan, "Be wary of Leary...
Appearing this week in U. S. and Canadian newspapers were the first advertisements of an institutional campaign, to promote the cinema. The slogan, MOTION PICTURES ARE YOUR BEST ENTERTAINMENT, had been MOVIES ARE YOUR BEST ENTERTAINMENT till it was noticed that the original initials spelled out MAYBE. Funds for the $1,000,000 campaign were raised half from the studios, a quarter from exhibitors affiliated with the studios, a quarter from independents. Most of it will be spent on newspaper advertising. There will also be radio programs, six trailers, a contest in which 5,404 people will win a total...