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...were cut into stock deals below the market included the names of New Jersey's Senator Kean, Massachusetts' Lieutenant Governor Gaspar Bacon, Edgar Rickard, business associate of Herbert Hoover, Arkansas' Harvey Couch, now on R. F. C., Connecticut's G. O. P. Boss John Henry Roraback. The only "friend" revealed as having turned down a Morgan offer on ethical grounds was Board Chairman Edward Grant Buckland of New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. Partner Whitney made a spirited defense of his firm's practice on the ground that its beneficiaries were willing and financially...
Still more exciting to 68-year-old Dr. Cross was the news, a few evenings later, that his campaign against the one-man rule of Republican Boss John Roraback had been successful, that he was Connecticut's next Governor...
...Travels with a Donkey), Dr. Cross was much better prepared to receive the shock, so pleasant to him, than were most other Connecticut citizens. Few of the scores of thousands of voters who poured forth to mark ballots for him had any real idea he could win from Boss Roraback's man, Lieut. Governor Ernest E. Rogers. In August the State had looked pretty Democratic ? especially the big cities like Bridgeport and New Haven and some of the little ones like Danbury. But by the opening of hunting season the Republican workers were telling each other, with even more...
...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...