Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prohibition. Irving H. Mezger, Baltimore Democrat, attorney. Reason: "These [Smith's] are not the tactics of an old-line Democrat." Mr. Mezger promised to form a local anti-Smith organization among "old-line" Democrats. Nathan Newby, James 0. Davis, Mrs. Katherine Braddock and Mrs. James Ellis Tucker, California (McAdoo) Democrats. Reasons: Prohibition, Tammany. Vance McCormick, chairman of the Democratic National Campaign Committee in 1916. Reason, as revealed in the McCormick-owned Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot: "to disregard the Constitution ... is destined to lead to anarchy and chaos...
...hours as the sky grew dark with night. Said he: "Alfred will never see the inside of that White House. In the first place, he won't be nominated at Houston; and if he should be nominated, he will be thoroughly licked. Alfred will get it where McAdoo got it-in the neck...
...House William G. McAdoo John Barton Payne James A. Reed Albert C. Ritchie Franklin D. Roosevelt Alfred E. Smith James J. Walker Thomas J. Walsh Burton K. Wheeler Woodrow Wilson...
Then a little parched figure arose, on the Senate aisle, hard behind the seat of Democratic-Leader Robinson, whose lieutenant the little man is. It was 74-year-old Furnifold McLendel Simmons, Senator from North Carolina these 27 years, political uncle of Josephus Daniels and William Gibbs McAdoo, unchallenged boss Democrat of his State?until after the Brown Derby's visit to Biltmore, N. C., in April. During that visit, younger men in the State took a look at a man who seemed to promise a supremacy greater than that of little old Senator Simmons. Editorials appeared. Letters went around...
...sentiment at New Lecture Hall was undoubtedly pro-Smith, as the presidential poll early in the spring indicated; but the sudden acquisition of strength to Baker, comparable as an opposition candidate to McAdoo in 1924, brought matters to an impasse. Once again, the balance swung between Smith and his rival; once again the desperate efforts of proselyting delegates failed to bring victory to the Governor; once again a tired assemblage decided on a third candidate, and somewhat uncertainly united the two combatting factions...