Word: robey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas City Star. They knew, too, that, as he grappled with complex national issues, modest, provincial Governor Landon had gladly turned for help on phrases, facts, ideas to the four advisers who, he insists, are not a "brain trust"-Charles Phelps Taft II, Earl Howard Taylor, Ralph West Robey and Fred Donald Enfield...
...Topeka all the Landon advisers except Ralph Robey, who lives at the Jayhawk Hotel where the others have their offices, are housed next door to the Executive Mansion. Hard-working and closemouthed, they are not seen much outside home, office or State House. Valiantly doing their bit to dispel the impression that Nominee Landon has copied the Roosevelt brain trust, they also keep out of the nation's eye. There have been no more public statements from them since Charlie Taft's comment on the summons to revolt which Al Smith & Co. sent to the Democratic Convention...
Ralph West Robey is 35 and a bachelor, handsome enough to have kept Topeka's young women in a flutter since his arrival. He advises Nominee Landon on banking and finance. Born in tiny Masontown, W. Va., Ralph Robey learned his economics in Indiana and Columbia Universities, has since expounded his views in the Christian Science Monitor, New York Evening Post, Washington Post and as banking instructor in Columbia's School of Business. An acquaintanceship with Columbia's Professor Raymond Moley put him on the fringe of the Roosevelt brain trust in 1932, but since the Bank...
Three members of his "brain trust"-Charles P. Taft, Ralph Robey and Earl Taylor-arrived from Topeka, to help polish up his July 23 acceptance speech. Senator Carey announced that, though they had not discussed any other solution to the farm problem, he and Nominee Landon had agreed that a permanent system of Federal bounties was to be deplored...
...Prospect of Keeping a Good Heart" will be taken up by Dr. W. H. Robey Feburary 16, while Dr. Henry Jackson will speak on "The Role of the White Blood Cells in Health and Disease" the following week...