Word: raskobs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Jacob Raskob rose from a meal in a little Sonora, Tex. restaurant, handed the waitress a $20 bill. "Keep the change," said...
...Sunday broadcast Father Coughlin stuck by his Smith story, denounced the "Morgan interests," excoriated the "Tory Press," declared the U. S. must choose between "Roosevelt or Ruin." Speaking later of Monsignor Belford's apology he boasted: "John Raskob will be next and Al Smith after...
...President enjoyed an amiable visit from Brown Derby Democrat John J. Raskob, a Warm Springs benefactor who had gone South to hear Trustee Roosevelt accept a new administration building and dining hall for the sanitarium...
...stopped off in Albany on his way back from campaigning in Massachusetts for Franklin Roosevelt last year had the two oldtime friends met socially. Happy at the railroad station, he told reporters inquiring about his health that he felt "like a whistle." A White House invitation brought John J. Raskob and Editor Smith, who has sharply criticized the Administration in his New Outlook, to the executive mansion for tea. There they met U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Davis, who had come to Washington to talk disarmament with the President, Mrs. Dall and her "Sistie" and "Buzzie." Greeted by the President...
Cutten & Sinclair. Inquisitor Pecora's next witness was not so explicit as Mr. Raskob, but the Senators eyed him much more curiously. He was not only the manager of a syndicate which had cleared $12,000,000 without putting up I? but also the biggest stock and grain speculator that the Senators had yet beheld. Spare, white-haired, slightly deaf Arthur William Cutten sat with his hand cupped behind his ear throughout most of the long interrogation on the great Sinclair Consolidated Oil pool of 1928-29. Unsmiling he peered through his spectacles at Inquisitor Pecora whom he could...