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...Limbo the Director General of Railroads (William Gibbs McAdoo's Wartime office, its onetime payroll of 2.000,000, now down to one clerk), the War Finance Corp., National Bituminous Coal Commission (its function to Interior...
Divorced. Nona McAdoo de Mohrenschildt Cowles Taylor, second of the five daughters of California's ex-Senator William Gibbs McAdoo (by his three wives,* he had respectively three sons and three daughters; two daughters; no children); from her third husband, Francis Taylor, Manhattan socialite; in Reno. Grounds: mental cruelty...
...Department (as the co-equal of his contemporary, Assistant Secretary of the Navy F. D. Roosevelt), later on the Tariff Commission and as Internal Revenue Commissioner. From 1921 until after the election of Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 he was a workaday Washington lawyer. Helping to swing his friend Senator McAdoo's delegates from Garner to Roosevelt at Chicago, and being a Southerner, put him in line for the Roosevelt Cabinet. An assiduous politician but not a brilliant executive, 71-year-old Secretary Roper contributed to the New Deal more than comic relief for cynical journalists, more than platitudinous speeches...
Plump, ruddy-faced Interim Senator Thomas More Storke (Dem.) of California is editor and publisher of the Santa Barbara News-Press. He has long been such a close friend of his neighbor, Senator-reject William Gibbs McAdoo, that California papers call him "Deputy Senator." In Washington he knew enough not to take the 20 job-hunting letters he received every day too seriously. Instead he read Jim Farley's instructive autobiography, dined with friends at the Shoreham Hotel, danced to his favorite tune- The Last Roundup. "This is just a honey-moon," he said...
...arrangements are being made by the following Freshmen: Charles Bridge, Eugene Keith, Loren MacKinney, Endicott Peabody, Donald Wetmore, Jr., John Dane, Howard Young, William Murphy, Albert Chandler, and Richard McAdoo...