Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...probably the privatest citizen you ever saw," announced California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo as he sailed from Manhattan to find some "excitement" in Europe. ". . . There is no excitement in Congress. It's just work. Congress is a chain gang." A fellow passenger came up and slapped him on the back. "Who's that man?" demanded Senator McAdoo as the other walked off. "It's a good thing I didn't meet him when I had my carbuncle...
...knees, cried: "Oh, Lawd, I ain't got nuthin' again' nobody, no mo'." The Senate sent a diamond bracelet and the House a silver service as wedding presents and that evening before 100 guests in the Blue Room of the White House William Gibbs McAdoo was married to Eleanor Randolph Wilson in a simple five-minute ceremony...
Last week in Los Angeles' Superior Court a ceremony as simple and short as that of 20 years ago effected the divorce of Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, 43, from Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, 70. At 3:48 p. m. Mrs. McAdoo's complaint was legally filed. A few minutes later Judge Allan B. Campbell heard her assent to its charges: 1) Senator McAdoo spent most of his time in Washington, where her health would not permit her to live; 2) his interests were political, hers artistic; 3) because of this incompatibility she had suffered mental cruelty. Her doctor confirmed...
Last time the McAdoos travelled together was in 1933 when they went abroad, she to put Ellen, 18, elder of their two daughters, in school in Paris, he to visit Russia. When she returned she spent a few days in Washington and then departed, not to be seen in the capital again. The Senator remained alone in Washington all winter, all spring. At 70 he is still almost as good a dancer as he was at 50. When one of the Senate pages, having spied him dancing at the Shoreham Hotel with Rose, pretty young daughter of U. S. Tariff...
ADAMS GEORGE REYNOLDS ASHURST HATCH RUSSELL BACHMAN HAYDEN SMITH BONE LONERGAN THOMAS BULOW LONG (Okla.) CARAWAY McADOO THOMAS CLARK McCARRAN (Utah) COPELAND McGlLL WALSH COSTIGAN McKELLAR WHEELER DILL NEELY DUFFY OVERTON...