Word: raskobism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Jacob Raskob Jr. whose engagement was news fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 29) made further news when he bought himself a much-used 1925 model Ford for $20. Newshawks remembered his father is a Board member of General Motors...
Engaged. John Jacob Raskob Jr., 23, eldest of the eleven children of the chairman of the Democratic National Committee; and Minerva Elaine Aaronson, 19, lawyer's stenographer, of New Haven, Conn. They met while Raskob Jr. was at Yale (Sheffield Scientific School, class...
...Markin began as a tailor, entered the cab trade through the investment route. He organized Checker Cab which builds taxis, advises customers, but actually has operated no cabs itself. Although Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing is a big competitor, Mr. Markin probably is reassured by the fact that John Jacob Raskob is Checker's largest individual stockholder...
...surprise to the industry. Of Bull Durant legends abound. It is said that he persuaded G. M. directors to vote $100,000 for research on a refrigerator "just so they'd have more to worry about." It was he who, through John Jacob Raskob, then secretary to Pierre Samuel du Pont, interested the "Wilmington crowd" in G. M. He is one of the Federal Reserve's oldest, loudest, fiercest foes. He claims to have visited President Hoover a year ago last spring and warned him of impending crisis in the securities' markets. In 1909 he arranged to buy Ford Motor...
...Patsy, 12-metre sloop sailed by Tycoon John Jacob Raskob: a race in the Chester River Yacht Club regatta off Baltimore. Second was John J. Raskob Jr. in a 10-metre boat...