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...honest expectation of a Brown Derby victory Chairman Raskob had piled up a huge party deficit. After defeat he had refused to let his machine go to rusty scrap as was the Democratic custom between elections. Basing his organization at Washington, financing it largely out of his own pocket, he and Jouett Shouse had opened a drumfire on the Republicans which helped the Democrats win the House in 1930. When the spring of 1932 came, the party was $120,000 in Mr. Raskob's debt, but its national machine was intact...
Money & More. When the meal was almost over and during a lull in Jim Farley's hearty storytelling, Mr. Raskob reached in his pocket and pulled out an oblong piece of paper. This he passed to the national chairman whose pale blue eyes blinked in happy surprise as they fell upon it. It was a check for $25,000-Mr. Raskob's personal contribution to the campaign of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Chairman Farley wrung Mr. Raskob's hand, gushed his gratitude. The party certainly needed the money but the Raskob check meant more than money. It signified...
...Extremely cautious, Dictator Stalin look no action against the manifesto's daring authors until he had obtained, by means best known to himself, a vote of confidence from the 1932 caucus of the Communist Party, sitting secretly inside Moscow's Kremlin (TIME. Oct. 17). With this in pocket, Comrade Stalin proceeded to strike last week, sharply but cautiously, Not a single Big Red was touched. Instead two comrades who were Big Reds in the world's headlines years ago and 22 smaller fry were booted out of the Communist Party, together with a terrifying (because unspecified) number...
...battery on James Island. At the height of the bombardment Col. Wigfall commandeered a skiff and two Negroes, ordered them to row him to Fort Sumter. "He was wearing his red sash, his huge Texas spurs, and at regular intervals he would wave his bared sword with its pocket handkerchief flag, and send his enormous voice roaring toward the fort with a demand that it surrender." By some senatorial miracle Wigfall escaped annihilation, interviewed Sumter's commander, Anderson, made terms which Anderson took as official. Beauregard, embarrassed, annoyed, "very cheerfully" abided by them...
...Bronx, the six-fingered hand of Negro Will F. Woodard. a pickpocket with twelve fingers, got jammed in James Tewess' pocket as he slept in a subway train...