Word: jouett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unhesitatingly make the prediction that the House of Representatives will show a Democratic majority-Chairman Jouett Shouse of Democratic Executive Committee...
Even when the slightest bit of improvement is proclaimed, the market always seems to respond with lower quotations." While Democratic Executive Chairman Jouett Shouse was loudly jeering Chairman Fess's latest "discovery," less partisan Wall Street traders explained that one good reason why the stockmarket did not respond to Republican statements of business improvements was because the Administration's predictions, from President Hoover's down to Secretary of Labor Davis', for a turn in the economic tide, had all failed to come true...
Kentucky-born Jouett Shouse, chairman of the National Democratic Executive Committee, has sporting instincts. He bets on horse-races and elections. Often he loses. His efforts this year to win the House of Representatives for his party is a man-sized political gamble on which wagers will be made. Last week the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals revealed Democrat Shouse's efforts to deduct his betting losses from his back income tax returns...
...national party the Democrats seemed ready to concede Chairman Fess's point that Prohibition should be kept out of the headquarters campaign. Mindful of the Dry wing of his party in the South, Jouett Shouse, the Democratic national executive chairman, last week declared: "I don't regard Prohibition as a national issue between the two parties in this election." However he did not weasel on his personal position: "There must be a change in the Prohibition laws. There should not be a repeal of the 18th Amendment without offering some constructive substitute. I believe that will take the form...
...chairman, at least temporarily, was smallish, solemn, fuss-budgety Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio, who cancelled steamship bookings for a European holiday to take over his new political duties. In imitation of the present Democratic setup, in which National Chairman Raskob yields the spotlight to Executive Committee Chairman Jouett Shouse, the Republicans decided to have, in addition to their party chief, an active committee manager to do the real political work. For this new professional post, with $15,000 salary, Robert H. Lucas, now Commissioner of Internal Revenue in the Treasury Department, was tentatively chosen. Mr. Lucas, 41, energetic...