Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this week's (TIME, Aug. 20) account of Reconstructor McAdoo's prancing at the recent Santa Barbara fiesta, the word "mare" was used in description of Mr. McAdoo's mount If the newsgatherer who wrote the story will look closely at the picture accompanying the write-up he will see that he should have used "stallion"' or gelding" (as the case...
William Gibbs McAdoo, Dry Democrat, said he would make "an important announcement" after Nominee Smith's acceptance speech...
...Democracy's sheet anchor, many a Dry Democrat has "swallowed the anchor" with many a different kind of grin and grimace. Charles Wayland Bryan, brother and manager of the late William Jennings ("grape juice") Bryan whose opposition to a Smith nomination in 1924 was second only to the McAdoo bitterness, is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Nebraska this year. His method of anchor-swallowing last week, was to announce that he would support the Democratic ticket from the president down, for the following reason: "The Prohibition issue which I have objected to having injected into...
...passing of these bosses is significant because they were the advance guard of the revolution which transformed the Democratic Party from the rural dilemma of Bryan and McAdoo to the urban climax of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Election day will determine whether it is a happy climax...
...lone survivor of the advance guard is Thomas Taggart, 71, of Indiana. It was Taggart, Murphy and Brennan (acting on deathbed instructions from Sullivan) who pushed aside McAdoo and forced the nomination of Cox at the Democratic convention in 1920. The same forces compromised on John W. Davis in 1924, when the Smith movement failed. Mr. Taggart is now in ill health and resides quietly at French Lick, Ind., playing croquet with his grandchildren...