Word: jouett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silver Congressman was found on the list. Democrat Joseph Tumulty and the wife of Democrat Jouett Shouse made small headlines as silver owners but neither the onetime secretary to Woodrow Wilson nor the wife of the onetime party manager could be called insiders with the silver bloc. Notable catches were Errett Lobban Cord, member of the Committee for the Nation, owning 1,651,000 oz.; Frank A. Vanderlip Jr., son of another member, owning 300,000 oz.; Amy Collins, treasurer of the Radio League of the Little Flower, mouthpiece for ardent Silverite Father Coughlin, 500,000 oz.; A. Atwater Kent...
...Married. Jouett Shouse, new president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, divorced from his longtime (1911-32) wife; and Mrs. Catherine Filene Dodd, daughter of Boston Storeman A. Lincoln Filene, divorced wife of Alvin E. Dodd, onetime Assistant Attorney General; in Washington...
...Brown Derby victory Chairman Raskob had piled up a huge party deficit. After defeat he had refused to let his machine go to rusty scrap as was the Democratic custom between elections. Basing his organization at Washington, financing it largely out of his own pocket, he and Jouett Shouse had opened a drumfire on the Republicans which helped the Democrats win the House in 1930. When the spring of 1932 came, the party was $120,000 in Mr. Raskob's debt, but its national machine was intact...
Because Prohibition is a matter of politics and politics is a matter of propaganda, horsey, fun-loving Jouett Shouse, ablest of political propagandists, was last week named president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. His selection was announced by rich, precise Pierre Samuel du Pont, chairman of A. A. P. A.'s executive committee. Major Henry Hastings Curran, the Association's president for the past five years, was made vice chairman of the board...
...came as the climax to a four-day convention struggle. At the outset after the keynote speech (TIME, July 4) Manager Farley established his clear Roosevelt majority of 100 votes or more by winning delegation contests from Louisiana and Minnesota and electing Senator Thomas James Walsh permanent chairman over Jouett Shouse. But those same ballots nailed down the anti-Roosevelt States?California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia?as a minority strong enough to veto any nomination...