James Roosevelt, "closest by blood and affection to the man who makes the appointments," last week continued to keep the Massachusetts patronage pot boiling. Thanks to the President's eldest son, a 28-year-old Haverhill drug clerk named John E. Donahue was made receiver for Essex National Bank at $4,000 per year. Receiver Donahue spent three years at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, later mixed prescriptions in his father's drug store. He was ardently "For-Roosevelt-Before-Chicago." Last year he was elected State Representative from a district that had not sent a Democrat to Boston...
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