Word: raskobism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Republicans and Democrats fell to haggling again last week over national political finances. In reporting their current position, the Democrats revealed that they were still $707,054 in the red, of which $295,250 came from Chairman John Jacob Raskob. During the last three months Mr. Raskob has increased his party's debt to him by $40,000. These figures caused the Republican National Committee to remark through the convenient mouth of West Virginia's Senator Hatfield: "Mr. Raskob is steadily increasing the size of the mortgage which he holds on the once proud party of Jefferson...
Though the Roosevelt lead over other candidates was certainly commanding, the nominating convention was still a year away and much could happen in that time. Alfred Emanuel Smith had yet to speak his mind on candidates. John Jacob Raskob's purposes were still obscure. A New York legislative committee had twelve months to investigate Tammany Hall and embarrass its candidate. None of the "favorite sons"-Ohio's Baker and Cox, Maryland's Ritchie, Arkansas' Robinson, Virginia's Byrd, Illinois' Lewis, Tennessee's Hull-had so much as hinted that Governor Roosevelt...
...John Jacob Raskob was a Union Leaguer before he quit his party to head the Democratic National Committee...
Last week the replies came in. It was, of course, plainer than ever how split the Democrats are. Bitterly did the Drys deplore Chairman Raskob's activities as "unwise," "untimely," "dictatorial." They contended that 1932 should be fought out solely on economic issues. Equally loudly the Wets acclaimed Chairman Raskob's "courage . . . sanity . . . leadership...
Ohio's William A. Julian: John J. Raskob reminds me of the man who rushes into your home and in the presence of your wife, asks "What were you saying to that pretty stenographer I saw you talking to at noon?" . . . The whole thing is absurd. . . . North and South will never become reconciled on the liquor question...