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...occasion was a special meeting of the Democratic National Committee called by its energetic little chairman, John Jacob Raskob. A foreknowledge that he, a Wet, would bring up Prohibition as a party matter had provoked preliminary wails of warning from Southern Drys, which helped only to advertise the gathering. The certain prospect of the kind of intraparty fight that only Democrats can stage drew throngs of spectators to the assembly. Senators, Representatives, National Committee members milled about in open anxiety. From the wall fell the stern gaze of Thomas Jefferson...
After a routine morning session, Chairman Raskob, nervous, diffident, arose to read an hour-long address on party policy. He licked his lips, gulped, mispronounced words. Predicting that Prohibition would be an "outstanding issue" in the next campaign he declared: "My recommendation is that the 18th Amendment be not repealed but that the Democratic party advocate a new amendment which will provide that nothing in the 18th Amendment shall prevent any State from directing and controlling absolutely the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors within its borders. . . . This plan prevents the return of the saloon. . . . In order that...
...They also introduced the crooks to their parishioners. Where zeal did not rise to the buying point, the rogues made names make sales. They mentioned as investors or authorizers Cardinals Hayes, O'Connell and Mundelein; Archbishop Curley of Baltimore, Bishop Shahan of Washington; Alfred Emanuel Smith and John Jacob Raskob; Michael J. Meehan, stockbroker, and James A. Flaherty, supreme councillor of the Knights of Columbus. One of the rogues, Jerome D. Kline, played with his own name. To solicit German Catholics he was Jerome D. Kline. To Irish Catholics he became "J. D. Kane...
...Department could not follow its intention of issuing stamps illustrating George Washington at significant stages in his life (in connection with the 200th birthday anniversary celebration), Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown said: "The collected portraits of Washington bore too little family resemblance. One of them looked like John Jacob Raskob...
...League announced that his organization would raise $5,000,000 to spend during the coming year-$3,500,000 more than it spent last year. He also hinted that a "committee of 15 industrialists" might be formed to match the prestige of the Wet du Ponts and John Jacob Raskob. He published a list of 25 businessmen "determined that the Dry cause shall have the fair trial which it merits." Most notable name on this list: H. W. Hoover (no kin), vacuum cleaner man of North Canton, Ohio. Other names: Senator Arthur Capper, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, Admiral William...