Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prize. This time there was to be no slip-up when it came to the payoff. Louis Johnson raised the money for the campaign, when the Democratic Party treasury was at its lowest. It was a great political service and Fund Raiser Johnson knew what he wanted. Harry Truman made a few halfhearted attempts to fob him off with offers of the sub-Cabinet Army secretaryship or the Court of St. James's. But Louis Johnson stood fast. The weekend after his inauguration, President Harry Truman let Louis Johnson know that the prize was his at last...
...Democrats, in the gloomy summer of 1948, money was hard to come by. Even tried & true contributors of other years were reluctant to bet on what seemed to be a sure loser. Then Louis Johnson stepped in, raised enough money ($1,500,000) to pay for Harry Truman's whistle-stop campaign. Some of the men on whom Johnson put the bite were longtime Democrats; some were strong for one plank or another in Harry Truman's platform; some simply found it good business to be on good terms with the Administration (as others were supporting the G.O.P...
Nathan Lichtblau, 45, Manhattan plastics manufacturer who also owns interests in Palm Beach real estate. A perennial assistant to Democratic treasurers since 1936, Lichtblau served as Johnson's deputy, wheedled many a sweat-stained dollar from New York's minority groups when the going was tough. The money he raised paid for the newspaper advertising campaign launched in the campaign's closing days. Says Lichtblau: "I don't want a job or anything. I work purely as an amateur...
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt and son of Harry Payne Whitney. A devoted Democrat, he lent the National Committee money when things were at their gloomiest. "Sonny" Whitney helped found and finance Pan American Airways, is board chairman of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co. and president of Whitney Industries, Inc., a New York State lumbering company. Since the election, Whitney has been promoted from Assistant Secretary of the Air Force to Under Secretary of Commerce...
David Dubinsky, president of Manhattan's powerful, well-run International Ladies Garment Workers. Dubinsky raised a lot of money, paid for several Truman broadcasts...