Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Patrick Joseph ("Pat") Haltigan, 74, longtime reading clerk of the U. S. House of Representatives; in Washington. Noted for his sonorous voice, Clerk Haltigan became famed during the 1924 Democratic Convention in New York. For the 17 days of the Smith-McAdoo deadlock he boomed out the roll call, beginning with Alabama's "24 votes for Underwood...
Ever an accomplished hostess, who had had many admirers-among them William Gibbs McAdoo and the late Senator Thomas J. Walsh-she turned her talents to entertaining. At her home, "Uplands" on Foxhall Road her Sunday night entertainments featured the political lions of Washington. There, on spring evenings, looking across the lawns towards the lights of the Potomac's bridges and the distant dome of the Capitol, she has entertained nearly every Democratic Senator in the Capitol, all the important Ambassadors and many another bigwig, taking particular delight in pitting conservatives and liberals, such as Justice Roberts and Heywood...
Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Ellen Wilson McAdoo de Onate, 21, daughter of Cali fornia's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, granddaughter of Woodrow Wilson; from Rafael Lopez de Onate, 40, Philippine-born cinemactor with whom she eloped in 1934; in Los Angeles. Grounds: nonsupport...
...indicated by the guests honoring him at a private dinner in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel last week. With Senator Pat Harrison as honorary chairman and Senator James F. Byrnes as toastmaster, the list included Postmaster General Farley, Presidential Secretaries McIntyre and Early, Senators Barkley, Copeland, Davis, Duffy, McAdoo, Tycoons Walter P. Chrysler and Gerard Swope...
...Magnus Johnson, onetime (1923-25) U. S. Senator from Minnesota, at Litchfield, with pneumonia; Governor Charles Ben Ross of Idaho, Democratic rival of William Edgar Borah for the U. S. Senate, at Boise with neuritis; Senator William Gibbs McAdoo of California, at Santa Barbara with a carbuncle. Snapped he into a radio microphone at his bedside: "The party of Lincoln ... is nothing more than a racketeering gang led by millionaire privilege seekers and tax evaders, with a following of inflammatory demagogs and Democratic renegades in the pay of the Liberty League...