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...writing of the incomparable HELENA SPRINGER GREEN RASKOB (4 names-count 'em-and how you fellows fawn before wealth) you neglected to state that this prominent member of the nouveau riche is the wife of a man, who after growing rich under Republican regimes and policies, deserted his party SOLELY FOR RELIGIOUS REASONS. His talk about prohibition is THE BUNK. He obeyed his master the pope, in the same way that "Everything" Al would obey that master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...This man Raskob had more to do with injecting the subject of religion into the campaign than anyone else and I have heard him called some pretty hard names. You however, in view of some big advertising contracts that you already may have, have evidently singled him out for unlimited esteem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...squad of speakers traveled to Maine, by tradition a political barometer though its Presidential readings have been only one way (Republican) for 52 years.* Nominee Smith spent the week concentrating on the first premise of a Democratic victory, New York State. Busiest of all, National Democratic Chairman Raskob, fourth of the Big Four, traveled from Manhattan to the Midwest, to attend Nominee Robinson's notification, to see the farmers for himself, to lubricate local machinery, to arrange Nominee Smith's autumn itinerary. Mr. Raskob referred repeatedly to "the goods" he had to "sell" and what good goods they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Raskob's Rainbow | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

Citizens wondered what, if any, relation or comparison there might be between Mr. Ford's reasoning processes and the processes of John Jacob Raskob, retired finance chairman of General Motors, the biggest Ford competitor. Long before his new political activities caused him to withdraw from General Motors, Mr. Raskob was, as everyone knows, active in the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Ford | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Members of both parties put in sharp contrast Pierre Samuel Dupont's feeling that even though he was not taking a Democratic job, he ought to resign from General Motors before endorsing the Brown Derby. As for Democratic Chairman John J. Raskob, he last week resigned from a lot he had not already resigned from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tycoons | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

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