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...have rolled into Georgia, assailed his opponent as a dictator who ruled the State by militia, described him as a pawn of Yankee capitalists plotting to break up the Democratic Party. Russell played for all it was worth the revelation before the Senate lobby investigating committee that John J. Raskob and Pierre S. du Pont had paid $5,000 each to finance Governor Talmadge's convention of anti-Roosevelt "Goober Democrats" at Macon last winter (TIME, April 27). "Sure, I helped raise the taxes," cried the tax-raising Senator. "We raised 'em on Gene's friends...
Last week Jungo citizens were telling all-comers of a cash offer made by Mr. Hoover; of $1,000,000 for a half-interest offered by John J. Raskob, who arrived at s Jungo in a private railroad car; of $3,-' 500,000 offered by Consolidated Goldfields of South Africa, Ltd. Against these fabulous bids were two authentic offers of $250,000 cash. In addition to Mr. Hanna's claims, Nevada's one U. S. Representative James G. Scrugham (pronounced "Screw-gum"), onetime dean of the University of Nevada's Engineering College, was so im-pressed...
...Secretary of War George Henry Dern, of complications from his attack of influenza last April, in a Washington hospital; Chairman Jesse Jones of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., of influenza, in Rawlins, Wyo.; James Ramsay MacDonald, of an infection, in London; John Jacob Raskob, of neuritis, in Idaho Falls, Idaho; Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, of a gastric ailment, in Quebec...
Among rich Catholic laymen, private chapels are not unusual. John Jacob Raskob has one at Hartefield Manor in Maryland; devout Mrs. Nicholas Brady has chapels in her homes in Rome and Manhasset, Long Island. But according to Canon 1205, Section 2 of the Roman Catholic Church, only "popes, royal personages, cardinals, bishops and abbots'' may be buried inside a Catholic church. As his church began to rise, Layman MacManus asked, and got, permission in the form of a papal rescript granting him and his family the extraordinary right to be laid away in it. The MacManus church, called...
This John J. Raskob who contributed $5,000 to the organization conducting the undercover campaign against the Roosevelts in the South could not possibly be the same John J. Raskob who felt so shocked about the whispering campaign of the bigots against Al Smith in 1928, could he? Will you ask the man in charge of your Politics-Makes-Strange-Bedfellows department to find...