Word: raskobs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California's McAdoo, New Jersey's Kean), in the Hoover Cabinet (Secretary of the Navy Adams), in the Roosevelt Cabinet (Secretary of the Treasury Woodin), on the Supreme Court (Owen J. Roberts). The Republican party (Treasurer Nutt, New York National Committeeman Hilles) and the Democratic (onetime Chairman Raskob) were both involved. Declared the cautious Kansas City Times: "Those favored by Morgan were placed under obligation to him. Some of them were in positions that made the acceptance of such obligation a matter of loose ethics, to say the least." Without effort the Hearst Press pointed to the Morgan...
...whom was the Post sold? There were guesses galore: Publisher Julius David Stern of the Philadelphia Record. Publisher Frank Noyes of the Washington Star. Governor General Robert Gore of Puerto Rico, who publishes three Florida newspapers. James Middleton Cox or Representative Chester Bolton of Ohio. John J. Raskob. Rarely had the principal in a major transaction effected such complete anonymity. Revelation was promised after the District Court should confirm the sale. Meanwhile some shrewd guessers eyed Eugene Meyer, onetime governor of the Federal Reserve Bank. Supposed motive: promotion of a Republican comeback...
...when its front page "bared" the "Morgan deals." the New York Evening Journal's editorial page carried a Brisbanal sermon on Brain v. Brawn.) But presently Publisher Hearst crashed out with a signed editorial for the front pages of his morning papers. Theme (from Democrat Raskob's reply to Morgan's invitation to buy stock on the "inside") : "I hope I will be able to reciprocate...
...Shares Calvin Coolidge......................3,000 Norman H. Davis.......................500 Charles D. Hilles ...................2,000 Col. Charles A. Lindbergh......500 Williamm Gibbs McAdoo.....1,000 Gen. John J. Pershing ............500 John J. Raskob .....................2,000 William H. Woodin ...............1,000 Arthur Woods...
...expect anything more from Roosevelt than from the present administration as far as relief goes. Any man who is safe for Raskob and Sloan is not safe for the working class...