Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should onetime Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois be inclined to grasp at straw votes, he might be pleased and proud at the indications of the first such political weather-vane reported in the 1927-28 campaign...
Commentators recalled that last July, Mr. Wheeler had testified before a Senate committee (Chairman, Senator James A. Reed of Missouri) investigating Pennsylvania campaign expenditures (TIME, July 5, 1926). He admitted that for "a few years" just before the passage of the 18th Amendment the League had spent about $2,500,000 a year. From 1921-25, inclusive, the national body of the League (exclusive of .state branches) had spent $2,583,320.66 on prohibition enforcement...
...corporation at a ratio of four to one-which means that the corporation will be able to borrow four times as much money as it raises. Meanwhile, Lewis E. Pierson, president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, and Eugene Meyer, chairman of the Farm Loan Board, began a campaign among Northern businessmen and bankers, asking them to match, dollar for dollar, the money being raised in Louisiana. Through these two movements Mr. Hoover estimated that $5,000,000 would be immediately available for reconstruction work in Louisiana...
Clergy Pensions. Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays, who headed a committee to gather $15,000,000 last year for a ministers' pension fund, announced fruition of his campaign; was visibly moved at the earnestness of applause accorded...
Bishop William Lawrence '71, speaking in the afternoon, is the leader under whose guidance the campaign for the Business School was inaugurated four years ago. Professor E. F. Gay Hon. '18, who will also speak in the afternoon, was the first Dean of the School...