Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrats had more exciting business in hand. It was an assured matter that no candidate, not even McAdoo, would go to the Democratic Convention with half of the delegates instructed. Claims of greater numbers must be taken with a grain of salt. But in the Democratic Convention, with its two-thirds requirement, one third? 365 delegates?can impose a veto on the aspirations of any candidate. McAdoo is likely to control this type of veto against the Smith-Underwood group. The Smith-Underwood group is not unlikely to have a similar stop on McAdoo. The logic of the situation calls...
Several of them certainly are not. Some of them are: Ralston, for example, or Robinson. But the dark horse need not be one of the favorite sons, such a one for example, as John W. Davis, Senator Carter Glass or even Senator Copeland. Since McAdoo will have the largest block of votes, a most significant thing to know?if it can be known?is: "Who will be McAdoo's second choice, if McAdoo himself cannot...
...Fall of 1917 or the Spring of 1918" a proposal was made by the Federal Government (through the War Industries Board, of which Bernard M. Baruch was Chairman) to take over the steel industry. He alleged that the proposal originated with Secretary of the Treasury W. G. McAdoo, and that vigorous protest by American steel men, including himself, had blocked the plan. Judge Gary stated that his wish, in making public this hitherto unpublished episode, was to make a permanent record of the matter...
Under the two-thirds rule which holds in Democratic Conventions Mr. McAdoo will need 732 votes ?some 300 more?to be nominated. Boss George E. Brennan of Illinois, anti-McAdoo leader, challenged McAdoo to advocate a change to a Dimple majority requirement for nomination. Under a majority-vote rule McAdoo would need only 550 votes?about 150 more than he now has. If Mr. McAdoo is to be nominated, such a change would make the matter simpler. On the other hand, if Mr. McAdoo is not to be nominated, the change would make it less easy...
...McAdoo forces went to Manhattan to attend a meeting of the Committee on Arrangements for the Democratic National Convention. The meeting of the Committee was to choose a temporary chairman, the so-called keynoter for the Democratic Convention. Each aspirant for the nomination naturally wanted a key-note speaker favorable to him. As compromises between the several factions, Representative Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee and Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi were the chief possibilities. The McAdoo group amicably agreed with the Underwood-Smith group in the choice of Mr. Harrison...