Word: raskobs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...table were James Aloysius Farley, the bald, boyish chairman of the Democratic National Committee; Harry Flood Byrd, Virginia's energetic little aristocrat; Charles Michelson, the party's elderly, tousle-headed pressagent; Frank Walker, the committee's treasurer; Arthur O'Brien, headquarters worker-and John Jacob Raskob...
...food came & went, small Mr. Raskob thoughtfully eyed large Mr. Farley across the table. Four years ago Mr. Raskob had been where Mr. Farley was now, just rounding out a campaign to elect a Democratic President. In honest expectation of a Brown Derby victory Chairman Raskob had piled up a huge party deficit. After defeat he had refused to let his machine go to rusty scrap as was the Democratic custom between elections. Basing his organization at Washington, financing it largely out of his own pocket, he and Jouett Shouse had opened a drumfire on the Republicans which helped...
Then had come the Chicago convention. Mr. Raskob had been shoved to one side as this good-natured, smiling man now sitting across the table from him strode out on the Democratic stage, captured the convention, nominated his man for President, took over the national chairmanship, scrapped the fine Raskob machine and set his own running as the official party organization. These events had left Mr. Raskob not bitter-John Raskob is a sportsman -but chagrinned, dismayed, hurt. Since June he had kept his distance from Chairman Farley and the Roosevelt bandwagon...
...support William Randolph Hearst is giving Governor Roosevelt in the form of cartoon criticism of President Hoover. Four years ago Publisher Hearst was on the other side of the political fence and his battery of cartoonists flayed the Democracy as a bejeweled "Diamond Lil" escorted by John Jacob Raskob. Now Mr. Hearst has a Democratic nominee for President of his own choosing and his guns are reversed upon the White House...
...South; the rural radical wing of the Northwest; the free, harum-scarum wing of the Southwest. Governor Roosevelt, nominated by a heterogeneous combination of the last three, crushed the first wing, left it bleeding and broken. The Brown Derby is still licking its wounds in sullen silence. John Jacob Raskob, who kept the party alive through four lean years, has been unceremoniously exiled. Regardless of Mayor Walker's fate, Tammany can expect nothing from a President Roosevelt. Good Democrats like Bernard Mannes Baruch have been ignored. They feel that the presidential nominee has taken from them without so much...