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Last week in Manhattan occurred an event to which Republicans like Senator Robinson would, if they could, have liked to point as showing the Democratic tie-up with the stockmarket. James J. Riordan, president of the New York's County Trust Co., close personal friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith, committed suicide with a revolver. For a whole day the news was suppressed lest a run on the County Trust develop. Ill health and mental derangement were given as the official reasons but stockmarket losses were suspected, admitted. Mr. Raskob was named acting chairman of the bank, which auditors quickly...
Last week Mr. Smith was elected a director of the County Trust Co. of New York, headed by his friend James J. Riordan. When the company was founded in 1926 Mr. Smith was its first depositor...
...emphasized the fact that the South contained for him something besides Democratic politics, by declining to visit even Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his gubernatorial heir, who was resting, reviewing, retrenching at Warm Springs, Ga. The Smith Special proceeded, not without cheers, to Biloxi, Miss. There the Messrs. Smith, Raskob, Kenny, Riordan, et al., left off their sweaters and played, without further public palaver, golf...
Manager Van Namee reported that the Smith campaign had contained $103,310, of which $92,090.28 was expended. The balance, he hoped, would last until June 26. He named the contributors ? William Henry Todd, shipbuilder; James J. Riordan, banker; Herbert Lehman, banker; Henry Morganthau, onetime Ambassador; George Gordon Battle, lawyer; James W. Gerard, onetime Ambassador; Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thomas W. Kelly, Anna E. Felix, etc., etc. And told about the biggest contributor of all, William F. Kenny, contractor, who had given $20,000 and loaned $50,000 without security...
...clock on the morning of the 12th, the roads to Baldonnel were burdened with men, women, children, donkeys, cycles, motorcars. The Bremen was trundled from her hangar and poised for flight, away from a perfect dawn. Koehl and Fitzmaurice, devout Catholics, made their confessions and Father O'Riordan blessed the plane. Baron von Huenefeld, doffing his yachting cap, hung a silken flag of the old German Empire beside that of the Irish Free State. President and Mrs. William T. Cosgrave, the German Consul-General, the Chief of Staff of the Army and other officials, watched...