Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Gibbs McAdoo placatingly ex plained that, after he had exhorted San Diegoans to buy Liberty Bonds and keep courage to win the War, he did not have face to refuse a proffered air ride. He would have seemed to lack courage...
Lately Mr. McAdoo, who now is practicing law in Los Angeles and Washington, D. C., bought himself a Wasp-motored Lockheed-Vega ship with seats for five. It can make 180 m. p. h. That is not fast enough to please the owner. He often makes his pilot shoot up at as sharp an angle as possible and nose-dive to the limit of safety. Few men of 65 dare put their hearts to the strain of such quick altitude changes...
Other Secretaries of the Treasury who were stockholders in private corporations, of whom the Judiciary Committee learned, were George Bruce Cortelyou, Franklin MacVeagh, William Gibbs McAdoo, David Franklin Houston...
...Shouse appointment mollified anti-Raskob Democrats no less than the quick payments of their debts. As a Kansas Congressman (1915-19), Mr. Shouse served under Carter Glass on the House Banking & Currency Committee, and later was, again under Glass, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. A McAdoo man in 1920 and 1924, he is viewed with approval in the South despite his work at Democratic headquarters last year for the Brown Derby...
...governor whom he elected, Samuel Ralston, appointed him to the Senate. He was, however, defeated for election by James E. Watson (see page 11). Nonetheless he later elected Ralston to the Senate and in 1924 he was on the point of naming Ralston for the Presidency -after the McAdoo-Smith fight-when Ralston refused to run. Thereafter, illness weakened, and last week stilled the strong...