Word: raskob
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accurately pointed out that his achievements at Paris were far more significant than arrivals of visiting royalty, trans-Atlantic flyers, Channel swimmers. Behind the proposal the City Government, long habituated to receiving great personages amid blazing publicity, squarely placed itself. A welcoming commission, including Alfred Emanuel Smith, John Jacob Raskob, Bernard Mannes Baruch, Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell, Railroader Patrick Crowley et al. was duly named. Students of public psychology waited to see what pitch of enthusiasm could be aroused in the populace by a public reception to a man whose triumph was mental, not physical...
Last week Democracy gave a dinner party in Washington to honor Jouett Shouse, new executive committee chairman. Because National Committee Chairman John Jacob Raskob attended as prime guest-speaker, an incipient anti-Brown Derby revolt briefly threatened to wreck the good purposes of this gathering...
When potent southern Senators declined to attend, the meeting appeared likely to be distinguished more for its absentees than its guests. Said North Carolina's Senator Simmons: "Harmony ... requires the unhorsing of Raskob." South Carolina's Senator Blease added: "I've been with the Smith crowd as far as I care to go." The arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune gleefully played up Democratic difficulties, fanned the flames of schism...
Chief decliners were from Virginia where Bishop James Cannon Jr. had again been cannonading against the Smith-Raskob leadership. Senator Carter Glass found an engagement in Baltimore on the night of the dinner. Senator Claude Swanson had to go to New Bern, N. C., that evening. They both said they would have otherwise attended the Shouse dinner...
...Tennessee's Horton, Indiana's Leslie, New Hampshire's Tobey, Pennsylvania's Fisher, Wisconsin's Kohler. Vice President Curtis who saw the Preakness with Mrs. Gann stayed away, but Charles Curtis Jr. went. From Chicago, came Joseph Medill Patterson and from Manhattan John J. Raskob. Matt Winn, director of Churchill Downs, was as excited as anybody although he has managed the Kentucky Derby for 25 years...