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...Sincerely yours, "John J. Raskob...
...President Sloan of General Motors made it clear, too, that Finance Chairman Raskob of General Motors was unanimously expected to resume his business duties when Democratic Chairman Raskob's job was over. But he reiterated that all General Motors officers, employes, dealers, stockholders were free to stand politically as each thought best. This emphasis, in both letters, made people doubt that too-much-work was the cause underlying the Raskob withdrawal. People said that the cause was pressure from within General Motors, notably perhaps from the six Fisher Brothers (bodies), four of whom are General Motors directors...
...mannered Yale graduate ('09), careful investor of a multi-million patrimony; clubman, generous donor to philanthropies (especially for cripples); director of such concerns as the Southern Railway, Metropolitan Life, Chase National Bank, Corn Products; board chairman of Case, Pomeroy & Co. Like Banker Nutt and the Democracy's Raskob, Mr. Milbank is new-to politics but widely acquainted, keen to learn...
...insulting, conscienceless" choice of John J. Raskob, wealthy Wet, for Democratic National Chairman . . . "faithless, immoral leadership...
...Like many another publicist, Mr. Raskob did not recall Nominee Hoover's phrase exactly. Mr. Hoover expressed what the New York Herald-Tribune (Republican) has called a "laboratory attitude." He said that Prohibition is "a great . . . experiment, noble in motive...