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Second Stroke? Having obtained General Motors' Raskob for his national manager, Nominee Smith was reported to be seeking General Electric's Young-Owen D. Young, board chairman of the General Electric Company-for his local lieutenant as Democratic candidate for Governor of New York. That would be a second stroke in the effort to show the country that there are big business brains beneath the Brown Derby...
Elections. The committee then listened to Josiah Marvel, a swarthy, elderly country gentleman from Delaware. Mr. Marvel said that Delaware offered to the Democracy a manager who could think the way average Americans think from trolley conductors to potent capitalists. He nominated John Jacob Raskob of Delaware for chairman of the committee. Mr. Raskob was unanimously elected. The committee elected other officers as follows...
...Raskob appointment merits historical recitation...
...Raskob is a short, well-built man of gentle, clean-cut countenance. His favorite sport is sailing. His business responsibilities do not seem to burden him. In accepting his post he said: "I am not a politician and have never been affiliated with any party. . . . This undoubtedly has been the position of many citizens in all walks of life. . . . There come times in the life of a nation when men not in politics feel called upon to take an active instead of a passive interest in government. My belief that such a time is at hand accounts for my willingness...
Died. William F. Raskob end, 19, son of John J. Raskob; near Salem...