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...Treasury plan to help finance the nation's colossal bill for defense: the sale of baby bonds and thrift stamps. The scheme roused dusty memories of War Savings Stamps and Liberty Loan drives. Other memories of the same era will be buried this week with William Gibbs McAdoo, the tall, spare, sprightly man with the high voice and the face like Punch, who led the drives...
...McAdoo was then Secretary of the Treasury. Georgia-born, he had grown up in Tennessee, practiced law and lost his shirt in a street railway project. He moved to Manhattan and as organizer and president of Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Co. built the Hudson tubes, and laid the foundation of his fortune...
...Woodrow Wilson, then president of Princeton University, made such an impression on the Tennessee lawyer that he took up Wilson's political aims, helped get him elected Governor of New Jersey and, later President of the U. S. McAdoo's reward was the Treasury...
...foot of the Washington Monument, McAdoo plucked up courage to propose to Wilson's 24-year-old daughter Eleanor. His wife had died the year before, he was then 50, and already a grandfather. Nevertheless he became Wilson's son-in-law. The war took him to the zenith of his public career: he floated four huge Liberty Loans, took over the rail roads, issued $370,000,000 in emergency currency in three months, ran the Secret Service, helped Senator Carter Glass launch the Federal Reserve System...
Elected editors were Richard B. McAdoo '42 of Fort Washington, Pa. and Eliot House; and Albert Douglas '42 of Great Neck, N. Y. and 78 Mt. Auburn...