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Died. Mrs. Eva Lee Tardy McAdoo, relict of the late William McAdoo (New York City's longtime chief magistrate, onetime New Jersey Representative in Congress. Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Friends & admirers of honest Magistrate McAdoo, who left only $500, had donated $33,000 toward a $100,000 fund to keep Mrs. McAdoo and her daughter...
...Seymour Parker Gilbert was made Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under William Gibbs McAdoo. Later he served under Carter Glass, then under David Franklin Houston. When Secretary Mellon was appointed he promoted Mr. Gilbert, for skill and industry, from a $5,000-a-year Assistant Secretaryship to the $10,000-a-year Under Secretaryship. In 1923 Mr. Gilbert resigned to re-enter law, but a few months later was called upon to succeed Owen D. Young as Reparations Agent General. He is shy, no socialite. In 1924 he was married. He likes...
...Brookline, Mass. Chief counsel in many a great case, he attained prominence in 1917 as counsel for Congress in the investigation of the "leak" of President Wilson's peace note to belligerents, which brought an orgy of speculation in Wall Street and charges that Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and others had profited by their advance information...
Revival of the case of Jeanne Eagels focused attention on her physician, Dr. Edward Spencer Cowles, 51, neurologist, psychiatrist, son-in-law of William Gibbs McAdoo, proprietor of the Park Avenue Hospital. A licensed physician since 1907, Dr. Cowles is not considered "orthodox." He is not a member of any local or state medical society, nor of the American Medical Association. Nor does the A. M. A. accept his sanitarium for its register of hospitals. Nevertheless his personality, his shrewdness, his results have won him many a famed and wealthy patient and his little stucco establishment between two churches...
Free Speech. In Los Angeles, Calif., the Record engaged the law firm headed by William Gibbs McAdoo, onetime U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, to defend it against contempt of court charges. Record editorials and cartoons had smitten the grand jury and prosecutor in an investigation of alleged corruption attendant upon the famed Julian Petroleum case. Defense : the grand jury and district attorney are not The Court. Snorted Publisher Henry Birdice Richmond Briggs: "Next time, like enough, they will pretend that the bailiff who pounds the gavel and the scrubwoman who cleans out the judicial cuspidor is (sic) sacrosanct...