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...play by much-arrested Actress Mae West?a play about a clever, jewel-laden harlot. They have pictured "Diamond Lil" ogling the farmer, sweltering in a Tammany furpiece, getting blown out of her car by the Maine election, juggling issues in vaudeville, playing the stockmarket, etc., etc. Democratic Chairman Raskob usually accompanies...
...speech at St. Louis, September, 1919, that a combination of manufacturers and big business men control the destinies of this nation. What foundation is there then for a belief that, should the Democratic Party be put into power, a Party which has now among its active supporters, John J. Raskob, of the General Motors; Owen D. Young of the General Electric; and William H. Woodin of the American Locomotive Company, big business will not continue its control of the government...
...Cincinnati, Senator Borah pointed to Democratic Chairman Raskob, multimillionaire, and to the Smith campaign train, as evidences of that Prosperity, the existence of which some Democrats have disputed...
Since then, speculators in General Motors have pitched their ears to the tune of the words of tycoons. John J. Raskob once said that General Motors would go to $225; the stock jumped upward...
Thus, the Hearst "whispering campaign"−whispers which shout, cartoons which anybody can understand−implying that Mr. Smith's Democratic Party is the party of notorious women, jugs of liquor, money for profane pearls, with Mr. Raskob as chief sugar-daddy...