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...that mattered most was Candidate Tom Dewey. He came into a position almost unique in U.S. political history-he owed none of the political debts that usually hang on a candidate's neck like so many albatrosses (e.g., the 1932 Roosevelt debt to Messrs. John Garner and William McAdoo for wrecking Al Smith...
...Baruch's blue-&-gold sitting room stand autographed photographs of Orlando, Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Wilson at Versailles; another Versailles picture of Louis Loucheur, Lloyd George and Baruch, with Winston Churchill standing behind, like the freshman he was; of Clemenceau in 1922; of William Gibbs McAdoo; Cordell Hull; Lord Cecil; the War Industries Board...
...Woodrow Wilson's other daughters: Jessie, who died in January 1933, was the wife of Francis Bowes Sayre (U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines, 1939-42); Eleanor ("Nellie"), divorced wife of the late Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, now living in Los Angeles, is regional adviser of women's activities for the Defense Savings Staff of the Treasury Department on the West Coast...
World War I cost the U.S. $35,413,000,000 (35% of next year's war budget). This time the nation was committed to paying a third of the cost out of taxes, but Secretary William G. McAdoo had advantages that make his problem seem child's play in retrospect. (It was not so easy at the time.) To raise his $11,280,000,000, all McAdoo had to do was 1) lower exemptions for income taxes to $1,000 instead of $3,000, 2) raise the normal tax rate from 2 to 4%, 3) start the mild...
...Armistice he organized an industrial department for New York City's Liberty National Bank (later merged with New York Trust Co.). As it turned out that was a prophetic decision: in the bank he got to be pals with Ferd Eberstadt, who was then practicing law with McAdoo, Franklin & Cotton...