Word: raskobs
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Yvonne Raskob, 17, daughter of Chairman John Jacob Raskob of the Democratic National Committee, attending a Catholic student convention in Chicago, said she had pledged herself to total abstinence from liquor, remarked: "I am sure my father thinks being Dry is all right for girls...
John Jacob Raskob, back from a trip to Europe, reputed to be the largest holder of Warner stock outside the company officers, was asked if he were going to have himself elected to the board of directors. Said he: "Neither myself nor my associates . . . have been approached . . . are not desirous of . . . assuming responsibility...
...Received reports from its Lobby Committee on the activities of Claudius Hart Huston for Muscle Shoals, and of John Jacob Raskob for the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...
These facts did not satisfy Senator Robinson. He tried to snare the Democratic chairman with insinuating questions. Democratic Senators Caraway and Walsh on the Committee stormily protested such crude and obvious political maneuvering. Spectators mocked with loud laughter. Senator Robinson asked Mr. Raskob if he did not take his Democratic chairmanship to help fight Prohibition. Cried Senator Walsh: "Don't answer that question! Don't answer it!" Senator Robinson tried to build up an "important point" by revealing the anti-Raskobism of North Carolina's Josephus Daniels, oldtime Democrat, onetime Secretary of the Navy. When Senator Robinson was forced...
...political impressions Senator Robinson tried to piece together from Mr. Raskob's testimony: 1) money the Democratic chairman gave the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment was used to elect Wet Republicans, to oppose Dry Democrats; 2) the Democratic chairman "threw his money to the four winds" in his opposition to Prohibition...