Word: raskob
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More interesting to voters, however, than any of these subjects, was Mr. Raskob's inauguration of the great political game of Claiming States. First of the Big Four to begin the game in a formal way, Mr. Raskob made his beginning a bold one. It takes 266 electoral votes to elect the President. Mr. Raskob said that "any reasonably prudent businessman would, at this time," classify 27 States, with 309 electoral votes, in the Smith-Robinson column. He named his claims as follows...
Most political predictions are met with hearty laughter by the Other Side, but Mr. Raskob was answered with jeers and booes for concluding his prediction with the following statement: "This leaves States with 184 votes, every one of which is fighting ground, and there is good indication that the Democratic ticket will corral over 100 of these...
Senator Moses, Hooverizer of the East, was loudest in the Republican chorus of amazement. He said that Mr. Raskob was "chasing rainbows." He said: "My claim of Massachusetts for Hoover is emphatic and vociferous. . . . We laugh at the Raskob claim of Nebraska. . . . We have great expectations of Missouri. . . . I share Mr. Hoover's confidence that we shall carry New Mexico and Nevada...
What puzzled people was Mr. Raskob's failure to mention Illinois as a Smith possibility. What interested them, in the light of recent events, was the claiming of Wisconsin and Minnesota...
...Hearst was in Paris when the Eagle's questions reached him. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, prominent Republican, had just flayed the G. O. P. for its Prohibition attitude (TIME, Aug. 27). Chairman Raskob of the Democratic National Committee had just asked Nominee Hoover please to be more explicit about his Prohibition attitude. Nominee Smith had just defined his Prohibition attitude by proposing a form of the so-called Canadian Plan (dispensation by States) for U. S. liquor control...