Word: raskob
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...white-washed trees on its broad, flat lawn. Not for lack of invitations had he never before visited the Jefferson Islands Club in Chesapeake Bay. The founders of this sporting organization include some of the most famed Democrats in the land: Owen D. Young, John W. Davis, John J. Raskob, Senators Pittman. Tydings, Robinson. Logically they might have expected a Democratic President who liked outdoor fun to drop in upon them often. If they ever so expected they were mistaken, for President Roosevelt on vacations displayed a pronounced preference for his own New Dealers, rather than for regular Democrats...
...party whose triumph Boss Farley was celebrating was not the party of 1924 nor the party of 1932. It was both and something more. Two years ago Mr. Farley took command of what John Jacob Raskob with lots of money and the brains of Jouett Shouse and Pressagent Charles Michelson, had built up from the wreck of 1928. Since then Democracy's leader in the White House had become a national hero. While still retaining the conservative South, the Party captivated North and West with a new brand of social reform and economic experiment. But, more important from...
...Alfred E. Smith, Irénée du Pont, for directors. Very carefully did the League refrain from entering this year's campaign. Meantime, it has built up a campaign chest, and has been busy recruiting potent members. (Sewell Lee Avery, Harry F. Guggenheim and John J. Raskob were last week slated for its governing board.) To date Liberty Leaguers have only intimated that they will offer the U. S. the inedible Constitution but if the Administration's Recovery measures do not succeed, they may be able to proclaim that the New Deal also is inedible...
Pennsylvania. In 1928 State Boss Joseph Francis Guffey thought he could carry Pennsylvania for the Brown Derby if National Boss John Jacob Raskob would give him $500,000 for the campaign. Boss Raskob put up the cash and Pennsylvania, as usual, crashed Republican. This year Boss Guffey thought he could get himself elected to the Senate if National Boss Franklin D. Roosevelt would help him. The President helped, to the tune of a White House luncheon at which Pennsylvania was promised all kinds of good things under the New Deal (TIME, Nov. 5). Result: Boss Guffey became the first Democrat...
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...