Word: funding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ferreting into campaign funds in Pennsylvania Senator James A. Reed and his committee discovered that the W. C. T. U. had raised $250,000 for a "Governor's Enforcement Fund" after the Legislature had refused to vote money for Governor Gifford Pinchot to enforce Prohibition. The W. C. T. U. had an office in the State Capitol and paid for prosecutions brought in the name of Pennsylvania. National Anti-Saloon funds for assisting Prohibition enforcement from 1921 to 1925 were about $500,000 per annum-exclusive of millions raised by state Leagues. (TIME, July...
Smoked out at last, Mr. George laid about him last week. Canny, he still concealed the one essential fact: how much money there is in his secret fund. On other points he went the limit in a bristling press statement...
Wrote he: "Not one penny of the fund has ever been handled by me and not one penny have I ever touched for my private...
David Lloyd George replied, last week, to the hundreds of articles ground out against him, year after year, because he is thought to control a secret political fund (TIME, Jan. 31) often charged to total more than...
...commoners who were raised to the peerage during his term as Prime Minister (1916-22). Because this charge has been shrewdly ignored by Mr. George, a new one was started recently. By word of mouth it was alleged that his private purse has been swollen from his secret party fund...