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...party whose triumph Boss Farley was celebrating was not the party of 1924 nor the party of 1932. It was both and something more. Two years ago Mr. Farley took command of what John Jacob Raskob with lots of money and the brains of Jouett Shouse and Pressagent Charles Michelson, had built up from the wreck of 1928. Since then Democracy's leader in the White House had become a national hero. While still retaining the conservative South, the Party captivated North and West with a new brand of social reform and economic experiment. But, more important from...
...year, the three steps back will cost an estimated $180,000,000 a year. Reason: In 20 months the army of Federal employes has been enormously increased by the New Deal. ¶ One day last week a distinguished gathering met in the President's office. There was Secretary Morgenthau, Jacob Viner, his special assistant, Acting Federal Reserve Board Governor Thomas and the Reserve Board's chief economist, Emanuel Alexander Goldenweiser. They were on hand to watch the President receive a distinguished oldtimer. Robert Latham Owen, 78, onetime Indian Agent for the Five Civilized Tribes, founded the First National Bank...
Pennsylvania. In 1928 State Boss Joseph Francis Guffey thought he could carry Pennsylvania for the Brown Derby if National Boss John Jacob Raskob would give him $500,000 for the campaign. Boss Raskob put up the cash and Pennsylvania, as usual, crashed Republican. This year Boss Guffey thought he could get himself elected to the Senate if National Boss Franklin D. Roosevelt would help him. The President helped, to the tune of a White House luncheon at which Pennsylvania was promised all kinds of good things under the New Deal (TIME, Nov. 5). Result: Boss Guffey became the first Democrat...
...Manhattan, Mrs. Nelle Brooke Stull, founder and president of the Widows' & Widowers' Club, arrived from Elyria,Ohio, to perform her "favorite chore," that of "Hymen's assistant." Countess Eugenie Zicha of Prague had also arrived in Manhattan. So had Jacob Miller of Ontario and Theodore Kabelac of Philadelphia who eyed each other coldly, were united only in eagerness to meet the Countess. Fairly bubbling with excitement, roly-poly Mrs. Stull toddled about her hotel room to get the Countess and her two breathless suitors "properly introduced." After a study of their handwritings and an earnest consultation with...
...Wendell Scholarship was founded in 1896 under the will of Jacob Wendell, of New York, N. Y., whose son, Barrett Wendell, was a distinguished Professor of English at Harvard from...