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Last week Albert Cabell ("Bert") Ritchie, the handsome, smiling, divorced Governor of Maryland, went to New York City. An elevator shot him up to the 32nd floor of the Empire State Building. There Alfred Emanuel Smith and John Jacob Raskob wrung his hand in warm welcome. For more than an hour these three potent Democrats talked campaign politics. Later Governor Ritchie addressed the Academy of Political Science, said nothing important well. Cordial to all newshawks, he gave frequent interviews depicting the certainty of Democratic success in 1932. At a reunion dinner of the War Industries Board, which he had served...
Although New York's lame Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt is today the leading Democratic candidate, he is far from being the unanimous choice of his party. A faction, supposedly led by Messrs. Smith, Raskob & Baruch, with support in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Illinois, objects to Mr. Roosevelt's nomination on three grounds: 1) he is too Dry a Wet; 2) he is too radical on water power; 3) he is too unsteady economically. Long has the anti-Roosevelt group been casting around for a candidate of its own. Last week it looked as if Governor Ritchie, thoroughly...
Favorite Sons. No. 2 Democratic candidate of the moment is Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland. His out-&-out Wetness led observers to believe that the Smith-Raskob wing of Democracy would favor him for the nomination if Governor Roosevelt persists in weasling. Newton Diehl Baker of Cleveland continued as a passive candidate. The name of Owen D. Young faded more & more out of Democratic Presidential speculation, due largely to his refusal to countenance his own candidacy. Favorite sons included Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas. Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, Governor-Elect Arthur Harry Moore of New Jersey...
...customs and came back to import them into the United States." Nevertheless, officers of the Legion, feeling particularly insulted by the expression "staggering drunks," roared at Dr. Wilson. Besides attacking the American Legion in Kansas City, Dr. Wilson took pot shots at the late Dwight Whitney Morrow, John Jacob Raskob and Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick. Defending Bishop James Cannon Jr., he said: "He saved $3,000 and placed it in a savings bank where it was drawing 3% interest when Wall Street men of Jewish persuasion argued him into investing it where they said he could...
...last week he bought, in association with John McEntee Bowman, the Miami Biltmore Hotel and the Miami Biltmore Country Club, on both of which he has ordered luxurious improvements. In 1929 the hotel and club were bought by a group including Mr. Bowman, Alfred Emanuel Smith and John Jacob Raskob. Last week the seller was Whitney National Bank of New Orleans, representing bond holders...