Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sense, Senator Watson's "candidacy" for the Republican nomination is even more curious than the Willis phenomenon. Senator Watson's reputation is extremely unsavory. The Springfield Republican's 16 reasons for a Hoover campaign in Indiana were references to 16 members of the Watson political crew who have been indicted for crookery in the past four years. But, unlike pompous Senator Willis, easy-going Senator Watson has no pretensions beyond those of a "favorite son." His game is simply to herd the Indiana delegates for delivery to his good friend Vice President Dawes or for barter with...
...Every additional dollar of American investment there is an additional nail in the coffin of our independence," he wrote. ". . . What frightens me as a Filipino is the knowledge that those American 'captains of industry' who have millions invested in the Philippines are also heavy contributors to the campaign chest of the Republican Party. In the name of God, Members of the American Congress, I beseech you to give us our independence before the Philippines, like the 'Teapot Dome' and the naval oil lands, are donated to campaign contributors whose mouths are watering for our golden natural...
...late Fred W. Upham, then national G. O. P. treasurer, asked Mr. Patten to write out a check for $25,000 to help meet the deficit incurred in the Harding campaign. He said he would give Mr. Patten $25,000 worth of Liberty Bonds in return. The deficit still amounted to six or eight hundred thousands, Mr. Upham told Mr. Patten...
...time melodrama when he tried to use his ill-gotten gains for improper ends, and if Senator Borah's plan succeeds he will be able to clear the name of the Republican party by applying the same method to Harry F. Sinclair, whose contributions to the 1920 campaign fund of the party have been discovered to be not entirely from altruistic motives. But a necessary accompaniment to such a speech is the gold itself, and unhappily the Republicans have long ago seen the last of it disappear for "election expenses" of one kind or another. Thus in the absence...
Again, there is Hoover, the amateur in politics,--the ingenue among the curly wolves. It may be true that in 1920 Hoover was content to trust his preconvention campaign to as fine a group of mechanical engineers, prize orators, and textbook authors as were ever lost in a wilderness of politics. But that...