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...Chase Bank's list of syndicate loans were found the names of Alfred Emanuel Smith and John Jacob Raskob. Not troubling to learn more, the Press whooped that Al Smith had been caught dabbling his fingers in a stock-market pool. That night Mr. Raskob hopped down to Washington as a voluntary witness to set the Senators aright...
John Jacob Raskob, onetime Democratic national chairman who opposed the Roosevelt nomination declared: "Let's follow our leader. He may not be right all the time but he is making progress...
...mass in Sioux City, Iowa's cathedral, collectors found that a stranger in the congregation had put a $50 bill in the collection box. They decided it was a mistake, offered to return it. Said the stranger: "That was no mistake." Attendants learned he was John Jacob Raskob, onetime chairman of General Motors finance committee. In the Hollywood Bowl Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty was conducting the orchestra while a young woman rehearsed a 'cello solo. When the orchestra finished playing, her father stepped up to the podium, punched Conductor Harty exclaimed : "The orchestra played so loud I couldn...
...California's McAdoo, New Jersey's Kean), in the Hoover Cabinet (Secretary of the Navy Adams), in the Roosevelt Cabinet (Secretary of the Treasury Woodin), on the Supreme Court (Owen J. Roberts). The Republican party (Treasurer Nutt, New York National Committeeman Hilles) and the Democratic (onetime Chairman Raskob) were both involved. Declared the cautious Kansas City Times: "Those favored by Morgan were placed under obligation to him. Some of them were in positions that made the acceptance of such obligation a matter of loose ethics, to say the least." Without effort the Hearst Press pointed to the Morgan...
...whom was the Post sold? There were guesses galore: Publisher Julius David Stern of the Philadelphia Record. Publisher Frank Noyes of the Washington Star. Governor General Robert Gore of Puerto Rico, who publishes three Florida newspapers. James Middleton Cox or Representative Chester Bolton of Ohio. John J. Raskob. Rarely had the principal in a major transaction effected such complete anonymity. Revelation was promised after the District Court should confirm the sale. Meanwhile some shrewd guessers eyed Eugene Meyer, onetime governor of the Federal Reserve Bank. Supposed motive: promotion of a Republican comeback...