Word: raskobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strong of mind, bold of speech, he will now take prominent place on the political battlements of the capital. Briefly, his duty will be to eye the Hoover administration; to look for, mark, proclaim its errors; to direct against it the archery of partisan criticism until next election. Chairman Raskob prepared to withdraw into the Democracy's inner keep, there to plot great political stratagems for the future, out of the public eye. Said he firmly: "I have no intention of resigning...
...from a carefully prepared sheet of paper, read Chairman John Jacob Raskob of the Democratic National Committee to a group of astonished newsgatherers. At the disclosure that the Democratic deficit had been almost cut in half in five months, despite the party's crushing defeat, news-trained noses quivered with interest...
...deficit reduction and the Shouse appointment were Chairman Raskob's retort to disgruntleds of the party who seek his resignation. "Just soliciting," he said, had raised some $500,000 (chiefly in the East). Sale of the campaign speeches of Alfred Emanuel Smith in book form at $2 per copy, had brought in more than...
...Shouse appointment mollified anti-Raskob Democrats no less than the quick payments of their debts. As a Kansas Congressman (1915-19), Mr. Shouse served under Carter Glass on the House Banking & Currency Committee, and later was, again under Glass, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. A McAdoo man in 1920 and 1924, he is viewed with approval in the South despite his work at Democratic headquarters last year for the Brown Derby...
...Secretaries Mellon and Kellogg, when similarly approached. So too J. Pierpont Morgan, George F. Baker, John J. Raskob, William K. Vanderbilt, William A. Rockefeller?800 personages all told...