Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later the Pepper expenditures were explored and even the seasoned members of the committee professed to be dazed. His campaign cost $1,087,000. Of this amount $390,000 had been borrowed and there is more than $100,000 to be paid. The Mellons' Pittsburgh committee had raised $306,000, and two other committees had each raised $125,000. One Pepper campaign manager testified that he had been the victim of misplaced confidence in expending money to promote additional registration of voters who later voted for Vare instead of Pepper...
When the Committee had ferreted through the accounts of Pinchot and Pepper, they examined the winning candidate's records and found that Vare, the light-wine and beer man, had spent upwards of $500,000, much of it in cash. Edward M. Kenna of Pittsburgh, of the Vare western headquarters, Allegheny County Treasurer for six years (at $6,500 a year), admitted after being pressed by Senator Reed, that he had contributed $20,000 of his own cash outright. Others in the Pittsburgh district donated amounts totaling...
...watcher" is a person hired to visit voting booths to insure his employer's receiving all the votes cast for him. In Pittsburgh it was asserted that one-third of the voters were "watchers," allegedly purchased at $10 each...
Gradually the opposition of the school authorities is disappearing. The Pittsburgh School Board is the latest to make an exception in the case of "Old Ironsides" and suspend their rule because they believe in its patriotic and educational value. Cleveland. St. Louis, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Chicago, Salt Lake City, and Buffalo have yet to have their campaigns among the children. Admiral Andrews hopes that before the snow flies the "Old Ironsides" movement will be in full swing in these cities...