Word: jouett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Jacob Raskob, National Democratic Chairman, said: "To have won such a notable victory is an achievement for which Mr. Jouett Shouse and his organization deserve real credit...
...Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Democratic National Executive Committee (TIME, Nov. 10), declared: "Dissatisfaction with the Hoover Administration was the paramount reason...
...Bureau of Internal Revenue to be national executive director. While Chairman Raskob lay low?except to provide money and to answer "Libelous!" last week to an attack on his personal financial behavior during and since the 1929 stock crash?the actual work of the Democrats was done by Jouett Shouse, 51, the horse-faced, horse-minded, Kentucky-born Kansas City lawyer who was called in to be national executive committee chairman...
...Jouett Shouse was at the racetrack in Havre de Grace, Md. the day they called him to help the Democracy. He was there with his two daughters watching the horses run, laying bets, having fun. It was John Jacob Raskob on the telephone, calling from Manhattan. He had been hunting all over for Mr. Shouse and wanted him to come right up to town? very important ? national duty ? great scheme in mind?must come. Jouett Shouse went up but it took Mr. Raskob two days to argue him into shouldering the task of electing a Democratic Congress...
...control of the 72nd Congress continued to seesaw, Democrats, led by Chairman Jouett Shouse, continued to claim a full House majority of their own without insurgent Republican aid. They placed a heavy stake on Kentucky where a new law delayed the count which they hoped would put their party across and elevate Representative John Nance Garner of Texas to the Speakership...