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...said: ". . . There is enough defiance of law by private citizens. Must we also have defiance of the Constitution by the President to please Mr. Raskob...
What puzzled people was Mr. Raskob's failure to mention Illinois as a Smith possibility. What interested them, in the light of recent events, was the claiming of Wisconsin and Minnesota...
...Hearst was in Paris when the Eagle's questions reached him. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, prominent Republican, had just flayed the G. O. P. for its Prohibition attitude (TIME, Aug. 27). Chairman Raskob of the Democratic National Committee had just asked Nominee Hoover please to be more explicit about his Prohibition attitude. Nominee Smith had just defined his Prohibition attitude by proposing a form of the so-called Canadian Plan (dispensation by States) for U. S. liquor control...
...collector for the not too sweet-smelling Harding Administration and that he may be following some of his oil friends into the Tammany-cratic party. Dr. Butler was not called the little butler of the rich for nothing. On the whole it would seem that Dr. Butler and Mr. Raskob are imposing personalities, but only to those who are willing to be imposed upon...
...Very few U. S. private secretaries have mounted to the top of business. Among those few are: Samuel Insull, John Jacob Raskob, Edward Bok, George Bruce Cortelyou...