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...Representatives and 35 of the 96 Senators** ? were no such historic phrasemakers as Jim Good. Chief of the Republican side was Ohio's professorial little Senator Simeon Davison Fess, chairman (faute de mieux) of the Republican National Committee. Chief of the Democratic side was Chairman John Jacob Raskob of the Democratic National Committee, very much offstage because of his Catholicism, Wetness and political naivete. While Chairman Fess went about making more or less perfunctory speeches, the actual work was done for the G. O. P. by plump, glossy-haired Robert Hendry Lucas, who was brought in in August from...
Finances. As usual the Republicans had more campaign cash than the Democrats. Semi-final reports showed that the Republican National Committee had spent $573,173 while the Democratic National Committee was spending $159,233. Chairman John Jacob Raskob kept his Democratic National Committee alive with loans and contributions totalling $220,000. Bernard Mannes Baruch was financing, practically singlehanded, the Democratic fight to win Senate seats...
Montana. Dry Democratic Senator Thomas James Walsh was running for reelection on campaign cash supplied by John Jacob Raskob as Democratic chairman. Wet Republican Nominee Albert John Galen was opposing him on campaign cash supplied by John Jacob Raskob as chief contributor to the Association Against the 18th Amendment...
...John Jacob Raskob of General Motors announced: "Depressed conditions in the automobile industry have reached bottom. Sharp revival may be expected to begin with automobile shows in early January...
Died. Robert Winthrop Chanler, 57, portraitist, mural painter, onetime (1903) sheriff of Dutchess County, N. Y., wholehearted Rabelaisian (TIME, April 21); of heart failure, at Woodstock, N. Y. A great-grandson of John Jacob Astor related to three other venerable New York families (the Stuyvesants, Beekmans, Livingstons), he painted vivid, crowded screens, some of which were bought by the Metropolitan Museum in New York the Luxembourg in Paris. He decorated ballrooms, bedrooms, swimming pools for many a tycoon. Of his three brothers, William Astor was an African explorer, had his leg amputated because it bothered him; John Armstrong (Chaloner) made...