Word: raskob
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cincinnati, Senator Borah pointed to Democratic Chairman Raskob, multimillionaire, and to the Smith campaign train, as evidences of that Prosperity, the existence of which some Democrats have disputed...
Alarmed, peppery little Senator Carter Glass of Virginia sent a telegram to Manhattan. Reassuring, lively little Chairman John J. Raskob of the Democracy telegraphed back: "The story of Jack Johnson being authorized to speak on behalf of the Democratic National Committee is cheap Republican propaganda. Johnson has no connection with this committee in any capacity...
...Diamond Lil" by the New York American (Hearst daily). A series of political cartoons† depicts her as part donkey, part woman, with big pearls around her neck, with tight-fitting, scanty black dress. She usually goes riding in an automobile with a tiger flunky and a chauffeur labelled RASKOB. Some days ago, Diamond Lil had an accident, an explosion caused by the Maine election. Her automobile was blown to smithereens. The story beneath the cartoon told...
...Raskob, Diamond Lil's new chauffeur, also declined to be interviewed. Nurses at the hospital, where he lay for awhile unconscious, say that he repeated over and over, 'Take me back to General Motors,' whatever he may have meant by that...
Thus, the Hearst "whispering campaign"−whispers which shout, cartoons which anybody can understand−implying that Mr. Smith's Democratic Party is the party of notorious women, jugs of liquor, money for profane pearls, with Mr. Raskob as chief sugar-daddy...