Word: funding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...North Carolina, Tennessee, Wisconsin. After those States, he said, he would visit Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, New York. He said he was sure people were glad he had revived a method of campaigning that was "good enough for Abraham Lincoln." A Reed campaign fund was begun by his Missouri friends. The slogan: "A Dollar...
From the estimated $252,000,000 surplus Secretary Mellon last autumn subtracted a $25,000,000 reserve fund, and told Congress that a $225,000,000 tax cut would be safe if Congress would keep closely to the Treasury's budget figures. Up to last week Congress had already gone $25,000,000 beyond the budget figures, and still had to make a flood-control outlay of perhaps $40,000,000. From these facts Treasury experts predicted that a tax cut surely no greater than $225,000,000, perhaps of only $220,000,000, perhaps of no more than...
...about a Smith-Sinclair relation turned out to be a letter he had just received from a casual Manhattan newsgatherer, one Charles T. White, who was forthwith discharged by his employers on the Republican New York Herald-Tribune. Records showed that Sinclair had never contributed to a Smith campaign fund, though in 1918 he gave $1,000 to New York County Democrats. In 1920, four years before the Oil Scandals broke, Governor Smith made Sinclair a racing commissioner with a five-year term. In the 1920 campaign Smith lost. These facts Governor Smith brought out in a blistering letter...
...discovery, by the investigating Senators, that Albert D. Lasker, opulent Chicago advertising man, intimate of President Harding's and onetime (1921-1923) chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, gave $26,000 to the Harding campaign fund in 1920, $1,000 of which was recorded and $25,000 kept secret...
...Awarded annually from a fund left by the late Sir Henry Bessemer (1813-98), inventor of the Bessemer blast furnace for converting pig iron into steel...