Word: jacobe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elections. The committee then listened to Josiah Marvel, a swarthy, elderly country gentleman from Delaware. Mr. Marvel said that Delaware offered to the Democracy a manager who could think the way average Americans think from trolley conductors to potent capitalists. He nominated John Jacob Raskob of Delaware for chairman of the committee. Mr. Raskob was unanimously elected. The committee elected other officers as follows...
Raskob. Potent in the Smith background, financially, psychologically, is John Jacob Raskob, vice president of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co., chairman of the finance committee of the General Motors Corp., "biggest U. S. business man." Mr. Raskob was one of Mrs. Smith's escort home from Houston. Last week Mr. Raskob's son, William F. Raskob II, was killed in a motor smash. Nominee Smith made straight for Centerville, Md., and attended the funeral at the Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church. Beside Nominee Smith walked Mr. & Mrs. Pierre du Pont...
...spending days and weeks contemplating the sea from one of the three decks of the "Light of My Soul." It might indeed be impossible for the perfect yachtsman to be a mentally aggressive fur-trader and land-getter, as was Commodore Astor's famed great-grandfather, John Jacob Astor...
...Jacob Ruppert, brewer, owner of the New York Yankees, vowed last week he would never marry. Said he: "A hundred years from now there will be no marriages. . . . The only way marriage can be a success is for the husband and wife to live separately and see each other only a few times each week. . . . Married women are the most successful companions in the world-for the bachelors. ... If it becomes necessary for me to find companionship, I'll go to an Old Man's home...
...Tweed's heyday, which Grand Sachem Voorhis well remembers, leading citizens of New York were not above working with Tammany. John Jacob Astor vouched for Tweed in a crisis, and escaped three years' taxes. Elihu Root was one of Tweed's lawyers. Many another good name is connected with many another bad moment in New York City's government. No matter how well the present Tammany-ites behave themselves at Houston-and last week they said they were not even going to take a brass band-many a bad moment will doubtless soon be rehearsed...