Word: roraback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Moses found it, or thought they did, in the Senator's wetness. He is a much too forthright gentleman to have concealed his personal convictions on the Wet side. There he stands with Senators Edge of New Jersey and Reed of Pennsylvania, and National Committeeman J. Henry Roraback of Connecticut. Though long potent in G. O. P. councils, all are now most inconspicuous in the Hoover movement with the exception of Senator Moses, who had to fight for the place he did get. If Hoover is elected with Republican Dryness a dominant issue, the Moses record...
Another school of thought interpreted the Fess appointment as a studied rebuff to Hooverism. The committee members who made the appointment were predominantly un-Hooverish, including New York's Hilles, Connecticut's Roraback, Mrs. Hert of Kentucky and David W. Mulvane of Kansas, besides Chairman Butler. Senator Fess had energetically abetted the anti-Hoover campaign of his dead Ohio colleague, Senator Willis. Now that Senator Willis was gone, the elevation of his oldtime professor and friend seemed more calculated than sentimental...
...Saturday, a considerable group went aboard the Mayflower: Charles B. Warren, Ambassador to Mexico; Secretaries Hoover, Davis and Hughes, with Mrs. Hughes; Mrs. A. T. Hert, National Committeewoman from Kentucky; Charles D. Hilles, Republican leader from New York, and Mrs. Hilles; J. H. Roraback, National Committeeman from Connecticut; Senator Brandegee; Representative Burton of Ohio; Mr. James Burton Reynolds, Campaign Manager for Mr. Coolidge in 1920, and Mrs. Reynolds; Chairman Butler. They sailed on the Potomac for several hours and returned to the Capital to drop Messrs. Hoover, Davis and Mr. and Mrs. Hughes as well as Mrs. Hert...