Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year he was admitted to the Tennessee bar, lean, virile William Gibbs McAdoo, 22, married Sarah Houstoun Fleming of Chattanooga. She bore him six children, saw him grow rich & famed, died in 1912. Next year Mr. McAdoo became Woodrow Wilson's first Secretary of the Treasury and, somewhat hopelessly because he was already a grandfather and twice her age, began courting the youngest of the President's three daughters. On a bench near the foot of the Washington Monument one December evening he plucked up courage, proposed, was accepted. Secretary McAdoo, 50, and Eleanor Randolph Wilson, 24, were...
...after their engagement was announced, Senator McAdoo took Doris Cross to "Beall's Pleasure.'' ancient, ivy-covered Maryland home of his daughter, Mrs. Brice Clagett. There, to the tinkling of a large golden harp, the gaunt, grey Senator and the small, brown-haired nurse quietly took their vows...
Said Senator McAdoo's new mother-in-law in San Diego, Calif.: "They should be very happy. The Senator is a fine man, a good...
Said Senator McAdoo's new father-in-law, 16 years his junior, in Oakland, Iowa: "I don't care if he is a Senator and a Democratic leader, I still don't like the idea of a girl her age marrying...
...political consort of "Diamond Lil" Democracy, aglitter with John J. Raskob's vulgar diamonds. To climax the feud Publisher Hearst in the 1932 Chicago convention swung his Garner delegates to Franklin D. Roosevelt thus insuring the latter's nomination. Muttered deeply disgruntled Democrat Smith: "As long as Hearst and McAdoo are running the Democratic Party, I don't want anything to do with...