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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...
...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...
Early in 1929 John Jacob Raskob, to revive the defeat-shattered Democracy, put Mr. Shouse in charge of the party's Washington headquarters. For three years Democrat Shouse directed an effective drumfire of criticism upon the Republican administration. He, more than any oilier individual, was responsible for the fact that the House went Democratic after the 1930 election. G. O. Partisans blamed him for what they called the ''Smear Hoover" campaign. A Raskobite, he was eclipsed by the rise of the Roosevelt candidacy, denied the permanent chairmanship of the Chicago convention (TIME, July 4 & n). Politically jobless...
...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...
...light your cigar on a star up here," cried Alfred Emanuel Smith, proud because he was showing off his building to Jean Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of Paris. Then, during luncheon with John Jacob Raskob, Editor Michael Williams of The Commonweal, Jeweler Pierre C. Cartier, President John S. Burke of B. Altman & Co., Banker Robert Louis Hoguet and others, Cardinal Verdier admired the view...