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...field of contenders on a national scale for the Republican nomination in 1924 has narrowed to four-or rather, three and one-half. They are Calvin Coolidge, Hiram W. Johnson, William G. McAdoo and Oscar W. Underwood (half, because Mr. Underwood's activities are confined to the South...
...venture is underwritten by a committee, headed by George Gordon Battle, including E. F. Albee, Clement M. Biddle, Joseph P. Day, Haley Fiske, W. A. Harriman, Arthur Curtiss James, Robert Underwood Johnson, Elmore Leffingwell, Franklin Simon, Addison Van Tine, Frank D. Waterman, Mrs. Gertrude Atherton, Mrs. A. C. Bedford, Mrs. John O. Cosgrave, Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mrs. David F. Houston, Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James, Mrs. Medill McCormick, Mrs. Charles L. Tiffany, Jane Cowl and Evangeline Booth...
Secretary C. Bascom Slemp is not campaign manager. But he is a capable man to undertake the business of negotiation and maneuvering for position. There was a report of his activities in Alabama, where the friends of Senator Underwood have arranged a regulation that all candidates in that state's Presidential primaries must be state residents. Mr. Slemp was said to have arranged that Aubrey Thomas, formerly a Congressman from Ohio but now a resident of Alabama, will run in the primaries and deliver his delegates to Coolidge at the Convention...
...choice as campaign manager is a sign that the Johnson campaign will be a thoroughly professional affair and that it will be well financed. Frank R. Kent, one of the ablest of political correspondents, estimates that every one of the active candidates?Coolidge, Johnson, Underwood, McAdoo, will have from $100,000 to $500,000 spent in his behalf before the Convention. With William Wrigley and A. D. Lasker as backers, Mr. Johnson's fund may go well beyond that figure. William Randolph Hearst is also in Mr. Johnson's background...
...other candidates have wealthy friends or relatives and several are themselves very wealthy? Underwood, McAdoo, Pinchot, for example. But with Mr. Hitchcock in command Mr. Johnson's campaign should be notable for the flying of fur and money, wherever it can advantageously and quietly be spent...