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dollars, but he would pick out something like that to fuss about. One saw that his experience in business had made him like that. He probably had supervision of salesmen, or that sort of thing, who were likely to spend too much money on things that didn't matter. Yet, he'd come across with thousands without a question.

So he was pretty cranky, and very difficult for Mrs. Moskowitz, who felt responsible for him and held him in line. He liked her, but she used to retire from about with him just exhausted. I've heard her say, “I'm exhausted! Raskob is so difficult because he thinks he knows what to do, but he doesn't know anything. I don't know how he ever got on in business. He won't believe those who know how things ought to be done. He's always having political ideas of what ought to be done in the campaign.”

He wanted to have Catholic rallies. She knew, and others knew, that it would be just fatal to do anything like that. That was one of the things that she had to talk him out of.

His patronage went on through '32. He was one of the financial sponsors of the New Deal because he contributed to the '32 campaign. He was in the Liberty League in '33.

The well-springs of his action were first, devotion to the church and enthusiasm over the idea that a true and





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