Word: hatchings
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Much? Republican and Democratic National Committees closed their campaign books with bland, canary-swallowing announcements that their expenditures had been kept tidily within the $3,000,000 limit set by the Hatch Act. Their combined outlay for the 1936 campaign had been $14,544,000. To those who considered 1940's tremendous activity, its hours of high-cost radio time, its scores of expensive full-page advertisements in hundreds of newspapers, it was obvious that others besides the national committees had spent a lot of money. It looked like one of the most expensive U. S. campaigns ever...
Actually the base of the Willkie campaign had been broadened so far that some observers thought more might finally be spent on the Willkie campaign than had been forked up for Landon or Hoover. Yet G. O. P. Chairman Martin could honestly insist that the Hatch Act ($3,000,000 limit) was being observed with pharisaic strictness by the National Committee-for outside the National Committee were scores of organizations, uncontrolled and uncontrollable, collecting and spending money for the man they want to win. From coast to coast there were anti-Roosevelt or pro-Willkie organizations, maintaining extensive paid staffs...
Another problem which is given attention is that of "Political Neutrality." In view of the Hatch Act, and all the "little Hatch acts," what will be the future status of the civil servant? Is it necessary or advisable to deprive a man of his inalienable rights on the doubtful grounds that he works for the government? Mr. Wallace Sayre of the New York Civil Service Commission, who treats of the question at some length, heartily condemns this incipient tendency to "gag" the government employee...
Republicans in Washington hissed that WPA relief rolls were taking a suspicious pre-election jump, that AAA, in violation of the Hatch Act, was politicking in the Middle West, that a booklet entitled Millions for Defense, prepared by the Federal Works Agency and paid for by the U. S. Government, was being used by the Democratic Party as campaign material...
Eggs & Tomatoes. Democrats replied in kind. As Publicity Director Charles Michelson handed them up, National Chairman Edward Flynn grabbed them and tossed them out: Republicans were trying to "buy" the election. Republicans were operating in direct violation of the Hatch...