Word: raskobism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania. In 1928 State Boss Joseph Francis Guffey thought he could carry Pennsylvania for the Brown Derby if National Boss John Jacob Raskob would give him $500,000 for the campaign. Boss Raskob put up the cash and Pennsylvania, as usual, crashed Republican. This year Boss Guffey thought he could get himself elected to the Senate if National Boss Franklin D. Roosevelt would help him. The President helped, to the tune of a White House luncheon at which Pennsylvania was promised all kinds of good things under the New Deal (TIME, Nov. 5). Result: Boss Guffey became the first Democrat...
Jouett Shouse, active head of the Democratic National Committee during the Raskob regime, who, upon his ousting at Chicago, consolidated the Wets for the final drive upon the 18th Amendment...
With the clerk of the House last week the Democratic party filed its financial statement, reporting a treasury deficit of $557-757 as of May 31. Still uncancelled was $80,250 lent the Brown Derby by John J. Raskob in 1928. Still unpaid were some bills incurred during the 1932 campaign which put Franklin D. Roosevelt into the White House: $47,650 to Columbia Broadcasting System; $170,571 to National Broadcasting Company; $13,565 to Western Union; $14,122 to Postal Telegraph; $18,067 to Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel for campaign headquarters...
...Lieut. Governor Edward C. Shannon, a conservative out-state farmer with veteran backing. For Senator, Joseph Guffey, Democratic boss of the state, was whooping up his own candidacy. In 1890 he went to Princeton, met and admired Woodrow Wilson, made money in oil in Pittsburgh. He persuaded John Jacob Raskob that he could carry his state for Smith in 1928 with half a million dollars. He lost the state by a million votes, but was left with an effective party machine. Although traditionally Republican, Pennsylvania's votes in the Democratic National Convention are surpassed only by New York...
...only job ahead is for the National Headquarters and its publicity to be effectively maintained. This is something which can be handled easily nowadays because the party headquarters is in Washington and it is permanently set up--something which the party owes to the efficiency of John J. Raskob, who never could understand why the National headquarters should be anywhere else but in Washington and why it should be demobilized between campaigns...