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Senate Republicans last week failed to squeeze John Jacob Raskob, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, into a political hole quite so uncomfortable as the one into which Senate Democrats had placed Claudius Hart Huston, chairman of the Republican National Committee (TIME, March 31). Mr. Huston had been caught lobbying on Muscle Shoals. If Mr. Raskob could be caught lobbying on Prohibition, the score between the party leaders would be even...
Indiana's Republican Senator Arthur Raymond Robinson prepared for Mr. Raskob's appearance before the Lobby Committee by digging up contributions of $64,500 in three years by Mr. Raskob to the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. Next day Mr. Raskob, twitchy with apprehension, took the "torture seat" before the Lobby Committee...
...having put Claudius Hart Huston. Chairman of the Republican National Committee and President Hoover's friend, into a bad hole by exposing his stock trading on lobby funds, began to diminish last week (TIME. March 31). The reason: Republicans were actively on the move to put John Jacob Raskob, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in almost the same hole. If both party leaders were thus beclouded, the political score would be evened...
...Senate Lobby Committee had supplied Democrats with the machinery for discrediting Mr. Huston. Indiana's Republican Senator Arthur Raymond Robinson, a lobby chaser, a Huston friend, announced his intention of summoning Mr. Raskob before the same committee and interrogating him sharply as to his contributions to the association against the 18th Amendment and his activities in behalf of Wet legislation. For months the Democratic hue and cry against Mr. Raskob as a Wet Catholic has been quiescent. Party leaders have tried to forget Prohibition, to weld the wings of Democracy together again for the 1930 campaign. Shrewd Republican politicians...
...ocean. His figure in a bathing suit, his startling ability to squirt a stream of Atlantic water through his front teeth several feet into the air while he floated on his back stirred the interest of fashionable folk. Afternoons he played golf at the Everglades club with John Jacob Raskob...