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...Markin began as a tailor, entered the cab trade through the investment route. He organized Checker Cab which builds taxis, advises customers, but actually has operated no cabs itself. Although Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing is a big competitor, Mr. Markin probably is reassured by the fact that John Jacob Raskob is Checker's largest individual stockholder...
...surprise to the industry. Of Bull Durant legends abound. It is said that he persuaded G. M. directors to vote $100,000 for research on a refrigerator "just so they'd have more to worry about." It was he who, through John Jacob Raskob, then secretary to Pierre Samuel du Pont, interested the "Wilmington crowd" in G. M. He is one of the Federal Reserve's oldest, loudest, fiercest foes. He claims to have visited President Hoover a year ago last spring and warned him of impending crisis in the securities' markets. In 1909 he arranged to buy Ford Motor...
...Patsy, 12-metre sloop sailed by Tycoon John Jacob Raskob: a race in the Chester River Yacht Club regatta off Baltimore. Second was John J. Raskob Jr. in a 10-metre boat...
Selected to replace Mr. Huston as party chairman, at least temporarily, was smallish, solemn, fuss-budgety Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio, who cancelled steamship bookings for a European holiday to take over his new political duties. In imitation of the present Democratic setup, in which National Chairman Raskob yields the spotlight to Executive Committee Chairman Jouett Shouse, the Republicans decided to have, in addition to their party chief, an active committee manager to do the real political work. For this new professional post, with $15,000 salary, Robert H. Lucas, now Commissioner of Internal Revenue in the Treasury Department...
...Yvonne Raskob, 17, daughter of Chairman John Jacob Raskob of the Democratic National Committee, attending a Catholic student convention in Chicago, said she had pledged herself to total abstinence from liquor, remarked: "I am sure my father thinks being Dry is all right for girls...