Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilson was scheduled to make a ten-minute address over the radio in which he might seek to express himself on national policies; and on Armistice Day, Mr. Wilson was to receive several delegations to whom also he might make a public declaration of sentiment. Meanwhile, Mr. McAdoo, without the immediate assistance of Dan Roper, waited...
William G. McAdoo. Arriving from Manhattan, Mr. and Mrs. McAdoo with their two daughters, Eleanor Wilson and Mary Faith, were met at the Union Station, Washington, by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. The McAdoo's had an invitation to stay at the Wilson home, but declined it for fear the children might be disturbing to the ex-President, who is far from well. After stopping at a hotel, however, a visit to S Street was at once undertaken so that the two little girls could " see Granddaddy " who was equally anxious to see them...
Nevertheless, political correspondents, ever searching for hidden meanings, had sense that the advent of Mr. McAdoo to Washington was not purely a family visit. " The time is at hand," said they, "when he will announce his candidacy for the Democratic Presidential nomination." There was reason behind their conjecture...
Daniel C. Roper of South Carolina was not at the capital; he was in California with his son who is ill. But Mr. Roper's work is in an advanced stage. It is he who has organized and executed the McAdoo boom. He drives the McAdoo ma- chine. Twenty years ago " Dan" Roper was a clerk in the Census Bureau. He was there for ten years. He came closer to politics in 1911 when Oscar W. Underwood, then a Representative, became Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. When Mr. Wilson became President, Dan Roper was made Assistant Postmaster General...
...when Mr. McAdoo appeared at the Capital, watchers assumed that Mr. Roper had decided it was time for the McAdoo boom to come out in the open. Mr. McAdoo had himself intimated that he might soon deliver a comprehensive statement on national issues. But the situation was complicated by Mr. McAdoo's father-in-law, Woodrow Wilson. It is generally understood that if Mr. Wilson had merely to choose who would be the next President, he would select David F. Houston, who was Secretary of Agriculture and later Secretary of the Treasury in the Wilson Cabinet. At any rate...