Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be remembered that Mr. Kohler was elected in opposition to the powerful La Follette group which has for many a year controlled Wisconsin politics. Angry, the bitter-enders among the La Follette organization drew up a petition accusing Governor Kohler of having spent $104,000 on his campaign. As the Wisconsin law puts $4,000 as a maximum campaign expenditure, the petitioners sought to disqualify the Governor from office as a violator of the states's corrupt practices act. Among signers of the petition was Philip La Follette, brother of the present, son of the late Senator Robert...
...called to Washington as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, where he had his share in the handling of peculiarly difficult war-time problems. Then came an attack of illness, after which he cut short his convalescence in order to take up the fight for his party in the campaign of 1928. His own victory in a year of overwhelming Democratic defeat cannot be interpreted otherwise than as a remarkable personal tribute...
...political campaign cost about 30? a vote, according to final figures last week made public by Republican and Democratic National Committees. Republicans spent $6,276,000. Democrats spent $5,342,000. As some 36,000,000 votes were cast, the combined expenditures of $11,618,000 represented slightly less than one third of a dollar for each ballot...
...addition to electing their candidate, the Republicans also came out of the campaign with a treasury surplus of $285,000. Democrats, however, borrowed $100,000 from Mr. Raskob and $1,500,000 from the County Trust Co., Manhattan. As they spent all but $100,000 of what they were given and of what they borrowed, they now have a one and one-half million dollar deficit to increase post-election headache...
Last week's figures included late campaign contributions, one of which added a financial note to the long discord between Senator James Couzens, Michigan's motor-millionaire senator, and Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon. Senator Couzens made a last minute contribution of $10,000, and, according to one report, offered to make it $40,000 if promised that Mr. Mellon would not be reappointed treasury secretary...