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John Jacob Raskob & family, wintering in Palm Beach (they have rented the home of the late Buffalo Publisher William James ["Fingy"] Conners), were burgled of $150 cash, $75,000 worth of jewels...
...John J. Raskob Jr., Yale undergraduate, son of the onetime Democratic National Chairman, forfeited $25 he had posted to appear at Norwalk, Conn., on a charge of driving 65 m. p. h. In 1928 an elder brother, Bill, 19, was killed in an automobile accident...
...Edgar William Garbisch, Manhattan cotton broker, onetime (1924) West Point & all-American footballer; in Manhattan. After the wedding, the Garbisches sat down to a 30-in. tall cake in smart Sherry's Restaurant with 1,000 guests including Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Emanuel Smith, Mr. & Mrs. John J. Raskob, President & Mrs. Alfred Pritchard Sloane of General Motors Corp...
Last week Mr. Raskob replied that the Robinson criticism was "false, vicious, wholly unwarranted and manifestly a political attack." Said he: "I do not gamble in the stockmarket. I have always purchased stocks outright ... in companies that I thought had an attractive future and have held them until such time as I thought they were selling for all they were worth...
...County Trust Co., close personal friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith, committed suicide with a revolver. For a whole day the news was suppressed lest a run on the County Trust develop. Ill health and mental derangement were given as the official reasons but stockmarket losses were suspected, admitted. Mr. Raskob was named acting chairman of the bank, which auditors quickly pronounced "in perfect condition...