Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William G. McAdoo. Senator Johnson launched his candidacy in Chicago as he progressed across the country from California to Washington. On the same day, Mr. McAdoo, crossing the continent in the reverse direction, was in Omaha, just having passed through Chicago. One of his followers at the latter city issued a statement: " Mr. McAdoo has been in Chicago for several days . Men and women . . . urged him to announce promptly his candidacy for the Democratic nomination . . . Mr. McAdoo can and will speak for himself when the time to speak arises . . . That the whole country is calling loud for leadership is manifest...
This statement being placed before Mr. McAdoo in Omaha, he said simply: "Mr. Rockwell has stated the situation accurately...
...springtime the buds of the fruit trees swell and swell. Finally there comes a point where they cannot swell longer, and they burst- the peach tree into warm pink bloom, the apple modestly, into flushed white flower. So is it with Hiram W. Johnson and with William G. McAdoo...
...McAdoo's announcement was hardly more than an admission; it was not coupled with a platform. He promised that in the course of several speeches which he was planning his position would be made clear. One point of his stand, however, he expressed; he favors tax reduction and a soldiers' bonus. Said he: "We can have tax reduction and do justice to the American soldier as well, by treating adjusted compensation [the bonus] as a part of the War cost and funding it through an issue of 50-year bonds. The interest and sinking fund charge should...
...official speech of the night before, President Wilson received homage from a group of 5,000 pilgrims who gathered at his home on S Street. The ceremony was brief, lasting only eleven minutes. Mr. Wilson emerged from the door of his house followed by Mrs. Wilson and Ellen McAdoo, his granddaughter. A band played Over There...