Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Seymour Parker Gilbert, 45, youthful prodigy of U. S. business, one-time (1924-30) Agent General for Reparations Payments in Germany, since 1931 a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co.; of heart disease; in Manhattan. As a young U. S. Treasury assistant to Secretaries McAdoo, Glass, Houston, Mellon, he often worked until nearly dawn, then showed up on time for morning work. As a young Reparations agent he harvested from Germany, distributed to the Allies, $26,000,000,000 in cash and chattels...
...readily admitted, but he had dabbled in enough other professions to give him a deft versatility. As a politician he was defeated for the North Dakota Governorship In 1920, but got into the Legislature. As a lawyer he was sharp enough to become the partner of William Gibbs McAdoo in California, where Jefty moved in 1925. As a Democrat he was one of the first to climb on the Roosevelt bandwagon in California in 1932. Last month Jefty O'Connor handed Franklin Roosevelt his resignation as titular head of the national bank system, possibly because he plans...
...Garrett had been Speaker, John Nance Garner would not have been boomed for the Presidency in 1932. Without the Garner boom the famed deal whereby California and Texas delegations gave their support to Franklin Roosevelt at the Chicago Convention of 1932 would have been impossible. Without the Hearst-Garner-McAdoo deal, Franklin Roosevelt might never have become President...
Ellen Wilson McAdoo, 22, daughter of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, granddaughter of President Woodrow Wilson, made her professional singing debut as a lyric soprano with a WPA Federal Music Project unit in Glendale, Calif...
...member of Lawyer Hall's staff named Jack Irwin successfully prosecuted two Los Angeles doctors for violation of Federal antinarcotic legislation. The doctors were convicted. Their lawyer, R. Dean Warner, was cited for contempt of court. Dean Warner is a member of the Los Angeles firm of McAdoo, Neblett & Warner, whose senior partner is California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo. Last week, Attorney Hall claimed that his ousting as U. S. District Attorney had been prompted by Senator McAdoo's political pique. He said that at the time of his appointment Senator McAdoo had advised him pointedly...