Word: roraback
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrested with Lieutenant Governor Hayes on this and other counts. Last month when the trials began Mr. Hayes and 22 others pleaded not guilty. Two other defendants pleaded guilty, one of them Harry Mackenzie,† longtime first lieutenant of Connecticut's late Republican dictator, hard-bitten John Henry Roraback...
...Meadville Theological School, Columbia (cum magnis honoribus), Harvard and Yale Universities. A hardy perennial in Connecticut politics, he regularly runs for the House of Representatives, the Senate or the Governorship, thus far without success. He used to conduct a permanent but unavailing crusade to oust the late J. Henry Roraback, Old Guard boss of Connecticut Republicanism. In between times Mr. L&233;vitt sought unsuccessfully to oust the Connecticut Public Utilities Commission. He is also a chronic letter-writer to the New York Times...
Until this week the sharpest turning point in the career of the Rev. Dr. Prof. L&233;vitt occurred in 1932 when his Independent Republican Party, with a Prohibition platform, drew enough votes from Boss J. Henry Roraback's candidates to insure some New Deal successes, although Gubernatorial Candidate L&233;vitt himself got only about 10,000 votes. For his services the New Deal, in a hasty move, took Mr. L&233;vitt to Washington as a special assistant to Attorney General Homer Cummings, himself a onetime Connecticut politician. Before long, zealous Dr. L&233;vitt was circularizing...
...utility rates protected by his political power, his wealth feeding back to regenerate that power, Boss Roraback had the kind of friends and enemies that only strong men make. What Ohio's Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") Hanna did with the Republican Party nationally during the single Presidential generation of William McKinley, whipping Big Business to the Party treasury with fear of Bryan's silver money, cajoling it with protective tariffs and other favors, Boss Roraback did with controlled budgets, legislation favorable to industry, in Connecticut during eight gubernatorial terms. But public resentment against his dominance never rose very high...
Party workers grumbled last year when, after leading his Old Guardsmen aboard the Landon bandwagon even before Cleveland, Boss Roraback violated his lifelong teaching, visited the Democratic State Convention, made a laudatory speech, for their candidate, Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross, former dean of Yale's Graduate School and now, aged 75, serving his fourth term as Connecticut's Governor...