Search Details

Word: adoo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...feel that no other publisher is such a power in the land. Even adolescent Hearst-readers feel the reverberations of his career. Did he not always want to be President or make one and were not his telegrams the electric power which welded the Roosevelt- Mc-Adoo-Garner deal and put the New Deal in the White House? Controlled inflation, the policy of the hour-whose policy is it, if not his? And looking out upon the Pacific he may sometimes see the smoke of a fleet which he has always urged must be ready to fend off the Yellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

When questioning ended, Dr. Cowles, who is a son-in-law of William Gibbs Mc-Adoo, dictated a formal statement: "I have welcomed the opportunity of coming to this investigation. I've especially invited the opportunity because there has been in the public press and in the questioning here the impression that drugs are being used in an improper manner in the institution, which I deny and resent. ... I probably use as few narcotic drugs [chloral is not a narcotic] as any man in the profession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dr. Cowles Investigated | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

Congratulations from their backers, who included air-conscious William Gibbs Mc-Adoo, Wilsonian Secretary of the Treasury, owner of the airport and the Angeleno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: 246 Hours | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...last licking of a mighty Mc-Adoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Sep. 29, 1924 | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

...Johnson's most justly famous speech on the floor of the Senate was the one in which he pronounced Mc-Adoo "Micky Doo." The sole disturbance caused by him was an attack on the press gallery for alleged misrepresentation of his grammar and accent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enemies of Magnus | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | Next