Word: raskobs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Nina Barbara Raskob, 21, ninth of Financier John Jacob Raskob's 13 children; and Charles Wesley Lyon Jr., 23, University of Virginia Law School graduate; in Centreville, Md. Among the guests: New York's ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith...
Married, Robert Pierre Raskob. 25, third son of Financier John Jacob Raskob; to Dolores Hartor of Reno, Nev.; in Reno...
...they could trust his sincerity, Republicans could have found no sager counselor than Charley Michelson. For, as he reminded his readers last week, when National Chairman John J. Raskob hired oldtime Newshawk Michelson as No. 1 Democratic press tactician and speechwriter in 1928, political observers were as ready to inter the Donkey's carcass as they are now ready to bury the Elephant's. "I am really trying to think with a Republican's head," wrote Charley Michelson as he set about planning a resurrection such as he once helped to accomplish...
Last week this old piece of political linen went out on the public line when large Pierre du Pont and small John Raskob trudged into Manhattan's Old Postoffice Building for hearings-Mr. du Pont's to come first-before the Board of Tax Appeals. Both readily admitted that their deal had been solely for tax purposes, but contended that the sales had been strictly bona fide, with each man repurchasing his stock at the market. It was up to the Government to prove that they had broken the law against an "agreement, plan or understanding to repurchase...
...civil proceeding the Board of Tax Appeals then ordered him to pay the evaded tax, amounting to $728,709.84. This week a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan turned down Bankster Mitchell's appeal from that ruling. Big difference between the Mitchell and Du Pont-Raskob methods of establishing losses was that Bankster Mitchell sold his stock not to a friend but to his wife, who only promised to pay for it and, according to the Court last week, had "no way to meet the obligation...