Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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None of the candidates wiped his feet on the doormat of New Year's Eve, with more gusto than William G. McAdoo. The old jingle made on him four years ago still rings with startling poignancy...
...William Gibbs, the McAdoo...
Always up, always precipitating himself abruptly into issues and situations, McAdoo is letting no herbage spring up under his feet. Hardly had Secretary Mellon's tax plan been announced, when he sprang up with the cry of "Bonus first." No one has been permitted to doubt for an instant that he is a staunch Dry, nor to question that he regards the railroad question as abominably managed by the Administration...
William G. McAdoo. Needing two-thirds of the delegates to the Democratic Convention, the ex-Secretary of the Treasury has secured approximately half of the delegates to his cause. At a Democratic luncheon in Los Angeles he gave part of his program apropos of the President's message to Congress. He said: "I am made to feel that my California friends have designs on me. Whatever the future may have in store, California, at least, is double-barreled for this Presidential election. Of one thing we are certain, California is going to be more...
Oscar W. Underwood. The activities of the Alabaman are confined mainly to the South. The strategy of this course is the necessity of a two- thirds vote to nominate in the Democratic Convention. The Underwood men calculate that McAdoo will fail in this and they want their candidate to have a nucleus of 100 or more delegates when the alignment breaks up in the Convention and the McAdoo forces begin to disperse to other candidates. They are appealing to the South much as McAdoo is appealing to the West, yet Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida are the only states whose...