Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...botanist knows that if the topmost bud of a tree is blighted, lower buds at once begin to develop to take its place. Many members of the Democratic Party arrived at the opinion that the topmost Presidential bud, William G. McAdoo, had suffered from oil. Thereupon several other buds began to expand on their own merits, and, flushed with hope, to burgeon...
...McAdoo, who had journeyed to Chicago, then appeared before the meeting and declared: "You command me to accept the leadership. I accept the command...
...telegram from Senator Walsh of Montana, one of the Senate oil investigators, was read, declaring Mr. McAdoo's character was "untouched by any revelation." Previous to the meeting a caucus of railway labor leaders endorsed Mr. McAdoo just as the larger conference...
...With Mr. McAdoo's endorsement the delegates to the meeting adopted the slogan, "Back to honesty." The McAdoo men gave their leader a clean bill of health. Their unanimous opinion was "Nil nisi bonum...
Calvin Coolidge: "Ariel H. Thot-mas, astrologer, sent a prognosis of my future to some of my followers: 'Several American astrologers have predicted Mr. McAdoo to become President of the United States. I have just calculated the constellation of Mr. Calvin Coolidge. . . . Heard also the G. O. P. should do the important work until July 4, 1925, on days when the moon has passed the thirteenth degree of Cancer until the end of Sagittarius, and a landslide in votes will be for Coolidge...