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...Jouett Shouse, active head of the Democratic National Committee during the Raskob regime, who, upon his ousting at Chicago, consolidated the Wets for the final drive upon the 18th Amendment...
Strong objections such as Ed Howe's were certainly necessary to make bedfellows of the founders of ALL, and no commonplace, ready-made bed would hold them. The nature of ALL, as its president Jouett Shouse announced it, was to parallel the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment: to take a definite stand on particular issues, to take no direct part in elections, to organize and represent before Congress the interests of homeowners, farmers, labor, savings depositors, bondholders and stockholders...
...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...