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Stacked Deck. Hardly had Nominee Landon placed his bet, however, when the Democratic Party stacked the deck against him. On the day he made his announcement in Topeka, agents of the U. S. Senate Committee on Campaign Expenditures appeared at Republican State Committee headquarters in Augusta, demanded a list of its campaign contributors. The sole, non-partisan duty of this Senate Committee is to ferret out corruption. Day later one of its Democratic members, Washington's Schwellenbach, telephoned Democratic headquarters with news of some incorrupt but exciting discoveries...
Thus Chairman Farley was able to release in Manhattan simultaneously with the Senate Committee's release in Washington a list revealing the following contributions to Maine's Republican campaign chest: Pierre S. du Pont, $5,000; Lammot du Pont, $5,000; Irenee du Pont, $5,100; Henry B. du Pont. $2,500; A. Felix du Pont. $5,000; John D. Rockefeller, $5,000; John D. Rockefeller Jr., $5,000; Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., $3,000; Avery Rockefeller, $8,000; J. Pierpont Morgan, $5,000; Alfred P. Sloan Jr., $5.000; A. Atwater Kent...
...Maine, dismayed Republicans scurried to State House files for a list of Democratic contributors in 1932, found the document had been destroyed. Loudly they protested against the Senate Committee's failure to reveal Democratic contributors to the current campaign. But Democrats outshouted them...
...always be more or less suspect of trying to influence his wife and Queen. For undertaking cheerfully this thankless role Prince Benno, by act of the Dutch Parliament, is expected to be invested on his marriage with the rank of Prince of The Netherlands and allotted the modest civil list as Prince Consort of 200,000 florins ($136,000) per year. Britain's Queen Victoria, who proposed to her Albert, secured for him as Prince Consort, after much wrangling in the House of Commons, a civil list...
With such a potential guest list, preparations were on a grand scale. Congress appropriated $75,000, the Edison Electric Institute (utility trade association) put up $75,000 more, the National Electrical Manufacturers $25,000. Many a utility man contributed with his fingers crossed, because the New Deal was an enthusiastic booster for the conference. Secretary of the Interior Ickes headed the American National Committee while the Executive Committee was chairmanned by Rural Electrification Administrator Morris L. Cooke. New Deal officials soothed timid power men with promises that the meetings would be kept free of political propaganda. Nevertheless, most...