Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arizona leader: "Arizona?one vote for John W. Davis, one-and-a-half votes for Underwood, three-and-a-half votes for William Gibbs McAdoo...
...Result of the nth ballot: total number of votes cast, 1,098; necessary for a choice, 732. Totals for this ballot: McAdoo 488½ Smith 336½ Davis of West Virginia 72½ Underwood 46½ Baker 57; Glass 26; Governor Bryan 3; Robinson 21; Ritchie 16½ Saulsbury 6; Owen 2; Walsh of Montana 1; Will Rogers 1; M. A. Coolidge ½ (or perhaps the trailers at the end might be Senator Copeland, Josephus Daniels, the Mayor of New Orleans, of Chicago or of Montpelier). No one having received the required number of votes, the Secretary will call the roll for the nth ballot...
...Alaska, District of Columbia," he went on, "Hawaii, Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, Canal Zone." After each name the delegates sighed with relief. After two and a half days the roll call was over. Sixteen candidates had had themselves nominated. McAdoo had been seconded eleven times, Smith seven times, Underwood and Glass twice each, Silzer, Ritchie. John W. Davis and Brown once each. Two and half days had been worn away in oratory and Fahrenheit heat, interspersed with soul-exhausting demonstrations of as much enthusiasm as was thought to be politically effective. Yet an end had been achieved?not the nomination...
...Four years ago he contributed $75,000 to the Democratic national campaign, was Second Vice President of the Democratic Central Committee of California, and was known as the "Boss of the Southwest." He had in his employ four retiring or retired members of Wilson's Cabinet: W. G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury; Thomas W. Gregory, Attorney General; Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior; and Lindley M. Garrison, Secretary of War. California politicians even urged his nomination for the Vice Presidency to run with James...
...Manhattan a female McAdoo supporter sat up all one night constructing herself a "McAdoo dress" out of McAdoo flags, ribbons, posters. Appareled in the garment, she next day led McAdoo enthusiasts in a sidewalk parade. Newsboys followed, jeered, shouted: "Where you from-the circus?" Others shouted: "McAdoo Oil! McAdoo Oil!" Turning on her assailants, the woman cried: "Oil never will hurt you but liquor will...