Word: mcadooing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cleveland convention where the old guard in revolt named Frank O. Lowden for Vice-President and, when he proudly turned them down, revolted again and named Charles Gates Dawes, with whom afterwards they quarreled? Or that eleven-day wonder, the convention in the old Madison Square Garden where McAdoo fought Smith, and Smith fought McAdoo and Alabama 103 times cast 24 votes for Oscar W. Underwood, till John William Davis and Bryan the Lesser were boosted to the limelight? Or that second convention in Cleveland to which the Senator from Wisconsin, who in Jo Davidson's mass marble will...
...Among other committee members: William H. Allen, Jane Addams, Senator William E. Borah, Bruce Barton, Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, Senator Carter Glass, William G. McAdoo, Rabbi Stephen S, Wise...
Married. Sally McAdoo, daughter of onetime Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo of Washington and Los Angeles; and Brice Clagget Jr., law partner of William Gibbs McAdoo, in Manhattan...
William Gibbs McAdoo did not attend the wedding of his daughter, Sally, in Washington, D. C., last week, because he was suffering, in Los Angeles, an attack of influenza...
...Catholic cannot be President of the United States." Proof of this statement is impossible, but many was the Republican who said: "If Smith had been a Protestant, he would have won." Democrats insisted to the end that the religious issue did not originate in their own party during the McAdoo-Smith fight for nomination in 1924, or, if it did originate then, that it was fanned to flame again by auxiliary agencies...