Word: roraback
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State politics, convened to make nominations for the November election. From Homer Stille Cummings, onetime chairman of the Democratic National Committee, down to the youngest of the 1,000 delegates at the Griswold Hotel, the party representatives had one antagonist in mind: big-bodied, hard-eyed John Henry Roraback, Republican National Committeeman, for 18 years Connecticut's firm-fisted G. O. P. Boss, president of Connecticut Light & Power Co. To break Boss Roraback's grip, the Democrats at Eastern Point informally decided to put up for Governor no hard-boiled political veteran of the same kidney but rather...
Meanwhile Boss Roraback was preoccupied with picking a Republican gubernatorial nominee to oppose Dean Cross. For all the accusations that he selfishly dictates party affairs with an eye cocked on his public utility holdings, he is reputed an honest Boss who enjoys wide respect and who will not stoop to downright crookedness to gain his ends. Last week as Connecticut Republicans were about to convene at Hartford, Boss Roraback settled on Lieut. Governor Ernest Elias Rogers as the man he would make Governor over the opposition of Dean Cross...