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Word: mcadooing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strangely enough, in the estimation of one of the ablest political correspondents in the country, Mark Sullivan, McAdoo was responsible for Henry Ford's declaration in favor of Coolidge. There was a little personal matter to begin with. Many years ago ?during the War?McAdoo would not, or accidentally did not give an interview to Ford's "General Secretary" and Mr. Ford took offense. Besides that matter, Ford apparently does not like McAdoo's headlong procedure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Road | 1/7/1924 | See Source »

...Ford doesn't like McAdoo and doesn't want to see him in the White House. And yet, curiously enough, one of the main purposes each has had in wanting power is the same with both men. Ford thinks the railroads are badly managed and badly operated, and financed more in the interest of the financiers than in the interest of the stockholders or the public. And Ford, thinking this, would like to try his own hand at running the railroad show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Road | 1/7/1924 | See Source »

...although both men have the same issue and the same purpose, each apparently distrusts the other's capacity to achieve that purpose in the best way. Certainly Ford distrusts McAdoo, and one can readily infer that McAdoo distrusts Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Road | 1/7/1924 | See Source »

...according to this view, believing that his own candidacy on a third ticket might improve the chances of McAdoo, Ford withdrew his pretentions and backed Coolidge. It may be; stranger things have happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Road | 1/7/1924 | See Source »

Good Housekeeping, one of Mr. William R. Hearst's magazines, is conducting a straw-vote-for-President among the women of the country. With a count of 81,303 ballots, President Coolidge led with 52,274 votes. Next came McAdoo with 6,611 votes. And after him, in order, Ford, Hughes, Wilson, Hoover, Underwood, Hiram Johnson, Pinchot, La Follette, Borah, Lowden, W. J. Bryan, John W. Davis, Ralston, Glass, Alfred E. Smith, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mellon. Tied for last place (with one vote each) were Ring Lardner and John Davison Rockefeller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Poll | 1/7/1924 | See Source »

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