Word: hatch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elective offices. This fall many a teacher, like many another citizen, has exercised his time-honored right to take the stump. Last week a University of California legal officer threw a scare into such teachers with an opinion that if they were paid in part from Federal funds, the Hatch Act barred them from politics...
...Mexico's scrappy, white-haired Representative John J. Dempsey, who wrangled the Hatch Act through a balky House last July, found out that there are more ways than one of killing a cat. Behind the well-oiled State machine of District Judge David Chavez Jr. (who sent Dempsey to Congress), Brother Dennis Chavez won the Democratic nomination for U. S. Senator by a whisker. Roared Dempsey : "[There will be] 30 to 40 FBI agents in Santa Fe by nightfall. . . . The people have been intimidated...
...much revenue. The 1936 non-fiction success sold at $2.50 a copy ($250 for a copy autographed by President Roosevelt), and grossed well over a million dollars. Because of the ill-timed remarks of G. O. P. Candidate Wendell Willkie, who complained that the publishing venture violated the Hatch Act, disgusted Democrats gave the 1940 edition away, 100,000 copies of it. Estimated revenue: less than a quarter of a million dollars...
...Many -like William ("Bill") Ditter, chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee-had never been consulted at all. Others-like Henry Fletcher, the Republicans' general counsel, who had gone to Colorado Springs with a 14-page legalistic essay on how the G. O. P. could get around the Hatch Act limit of $3,000,000 on national-campaign spending-had been shown the door. How could anyone so politically insensible win the biggest political game of all? Up & down the corridors professionals wailed that a renegade Democrat, rammed down their throats, was wrecking the first real chance...
Messrs. Martin and Fletcher did not have such a good time. Joe Martin wanted to subordinate bumpity young Oren Root Jr.'s 600 independent, crassly amateur Willkie-for-President Clubs to the regular G. O. P. organization. Lawyer Fletcher had a plan to get around the Hatch Act's $3,000,000 limitation on national-campaign expenditures by splitting up contributions among various candidates and State, local, national committees...