Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, Director General of Railroads after Mr. McAdoo, was appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate in his new post of Director of the Veterans' Bureau. He made two statements to the press...
...Ford and Mr. McAdoo, both of whom may fairly be classed as progressives, have received most of the boom advertising thus...
Democrats who do not take kindly to either Mr. Ford or Mr. McAdoo extol Oscar W. Underwood as a " second Grover Cleveland." And Mark Sullivan, dean of Washington critics, adds: " Underwood's relation to his party and public life generally is not unlike the relation of the new British Premier, Bonar Law, to British public life. Underwood, indeed, might claim not unreasonably that he is probably, on the whole, a somewhat abler man than Bonar Law. Certainly he has a greater experience in public life and in party leadership...
...Senator Hiram Johnson of California is said to have received over $20,000 as fee for his work in connection with the New York electric railways Senator Reed of Missouri has been in Boston, between sessions of Congress, serving as counsel for District Attorney Pelletier. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo resigned with the frank admission that he could not support his family on his salary from the government. Now come Hays and Landia, and rumor asserts that Secretary Hoover, too, is faced with similar temptation, in the form of a $50,000 offer from Philadelphia to direct the coming Exposition...
Employees must agree to help eliminate waste caused by labor classification and the overtime provided in the McAdoo National Agreement. Railroads must agree that as soon as earnings reach the legally prescribed 5 1-2 percent on property values, they will reduce rates wherever it will stimulate business. I am convinced that these conciliatory arrangements would avoid the strike, allay business uncertainties and bring about an immediate business revival...