Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defense Secretary Johnson, whose Democratic Finance Committee collected Financier Odium's campaign contributions, and who authorized further B-36 contracts shortly after taking office...
...news, but not out of action. And he was careful to keep in touch with his fellow Legionnaire, Harry Truman. Last fall, when Truman looked around for a man to raise money for his campaign, his eye fell on Louis Johnson...
...Prize. This time there was to be no slip-up when it came to the payoff. Louis Johnson raised the money for the campaign, when the Democratic Party treasury was at its lowest. It was a great political service and Fund Raiser Johnson knew what he wanted. Harry Truman made a few halfhearted attempts to fob him off with offers of the sub-Cabinet Army secretaryship or the Court of St. James's. But Louis Johnson stood fast. The weekend after his inauguration, President Harry Truman let Louis Johnson know that the prize was his at last...
...gloomy summer of 1948, money was hard to come by. Even tried & true contributors of other years were reluctant to bet on what seemed to be a sure loser. Then Louis Johnson stepped in, raised enough money ($1,500,000) to pay for Harry Truman's whistle-stop campaign. Some of the men on whom Johnson put the bite were longtime Democrats; some were strong for one plank or another in Harry Truman's platform; some simply found it good business to be on good terms with the Administration (as others were supporting the G.O.P. for the same...
...owns interests in Palm Beach real estate. A perennial assistant to Democratic treasurers since 1936, Lichtblau served as Johnson's deputy, wheedled many a sweat-stained dollar from New York's minority groups when the going was tough. The money he raised paid for the newspaper advertising campaign launched in the campaign's closing days. Says Lichtblau: "I don't want a job or anything. I work purely as an amateur...