Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides, the Senate Committee had secured some delightful messages. A few of them were in code-apparently in two or more codes; they mentioned several Senators and Francis H. McAdoo (son of William G.), A. Mitchell Palmer, Wilton J. Lambert (all attorneys for Mr. McLean), J. W. Zevely (counsel for Mr. Sinclair). It was very interesting. Mr. McLean received more publicity than has been his lot in many moons...
Alfred E. Smith, Governor of New York, declared proudly: "I am a candidate for nothing." Reports from Wall Street asserted, however, that the odds were now the same, one to twelve, that either Smith or McAdoo will be the next President...
...asking each what was the outstanding feature of the President's office. Said Wilson: "The power of decisions." Said Cox: "The power to take a situation by the nape of the neck and the seat of the trousers and shake a result out of it." If William G. McAdoo is out of the race, then Cox and Reed are prepared to take the League issue- the one by the nape of the neck and the other, the seat of the trousers -and shake out a result...
...McAdoo out of the race? From his home in Los Angeles he assailed the "continued effort to make my private law practice a political issue." He admitted that his firm, which received $100,000 for services to Mr. Doheny in regard to Mexican oil interests, would have received $1,000,000 all told if its efforts had been successful in getting what Mr. Doheny wanted. He also declared...
...blessings of science fall even upon the overworked politician. William G. McAdoo, candidate, declared last week: "I am being requested . . . to make extensive speaking tours . . . Such a campaign I cannot make. In the first place, it is physically destructive to travel such distances making speeches all the way. In the second place, I cannot afford it, for my campaign is not supported by moneyed interests and I must count the pennies...