Word: raskobs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irrepressible Secretary Hurley last week clashed with Democratic John Jacob Raskob. Declared Mr. Raskob in New York: "I have good information that President Hoover will run on a Prohibition referendum platform if his party should adopt such a platform." Retorted Mr. Hurley: "Mr. Raskob is in a position to speak much more accurately of the amount of money he and his associates have spent slandering and misrepresenting the President than he is of the President's views on the 18th Amendment. . . . I'm not speaking for the President and I don't think anyone else...
...Reported also last week was the state of Democratic national finances for 1931.* Income: $1,032.267; outgo: $1.030,486. The committee borrowed from its chairman $122,000, bringing the Raskob loans up to $345,250; from County Trust Co. of New York (of which Mr. Smith is board chairman) $835.318 largely to refinance earlier obligations there. Individuals contributed $68,781 during the year. Largest amount: $25.000 from Vincent Astor, owner of much real estate in Tammany town...
Last week Albert Cabell ("Bert") Ritchie, the handsome, smiling, divorced Governor of Maryland, went to New York City. An elevator shot him up to the 32nd floor of the Empire State Building. There Alfred Emanuel Smith and John Jacob Raskob wrung his hand in warm welcome. For more than an hour these three potent Democrats talked campaign politics. Later Governor Ritchie addressed the Academy of Political Science, said nothing important well. Cordial to all newshawks, he gave frequent interviews depicting the certainty of Democratic success in 1932. At a reunion dinner of the War Industries Board, which he had served...
Although New York's lame Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt is today the leading Democratic candidate, he is far from being the unanimous choice of his party. A faction, supposedly led by Messrs. Smith, Raskob & Baruch, with support in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Illinois, objects to Mr. Roosevelt's nomination on three grounds: 1) he is too Dry a Wet; 2) he is too radical on water power; 3) he is too unsteady economically. Long has the anti-Roosevelt group been casting around for a candidate of its own. Last week it looked as if Governor Ritchie, thoroughly...
Favorite Sons. No. 2 Democratic candidate of the moment is Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland. His out-&-out Wetness led observers to believe that the Smith-Raskob wing of Democracy would favor him for the nomination if Governor Roosevelt persists in weasling. Newton Diehl Baker of Cleveland continued as a passive candidate. The name of Owen D. Young faded more & more out of Democratic Presidential speculation, due largely to his refusal to countenance his own candidacy. Favorite sons included Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas. Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, Governor-Elect Arthur Harry Moore of New Jersey...