Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summoned, did not appear to testify. Senator Black indicated that he would be glad to question Mr. Brown if Mr. Brown would waive immunity. Mr. Browrn made no move. He remained in Manhattan where he is board chairman of Hudson Tubes, the sub-river line William Gibbs McAdoo built between Manhattan and Jersey City. Other witnesses told the following tale to the Committee...
...knocked the political wind out of lanky, hatchet-faced Senator William Gibbs McAdoo. Mr. McAdoo, for all his dramatic assistance in winning the Roosevelt nomination in Chicago, has been out to build a Democratic machine for himself in California...
...reported that the local Chamber of Commerce's transportation committee had recommended to the District Commissioners that Steve's stand be removed as an obstruction to traffic, that Steve, who has certain ancient and vague connections with California, was about to appeal to his Senator William Gibbs McAdoo to save his business. The First Lady took shears, neatly clipped the paragraph, pinned it to a sheet of paper, scrawled on the paper: ''Must this man go? E. R." A servant carried the paper to Presidential Secretary Stephen T. Early. Mr. Early started to set the executive...
...Senate Banking & Currency Committee Senators Glass, McAdoo and Gore questioned the constitutionality of the whole proceeding, demanded a written opinion from Attorney General Cummings on the right of the Treasury to seize the gold of the Federal Reserve and give gold certificates in payment - certificates which, when the dollar is de valued, will call for only about half as much gold...
...Said Mr. McAdoo: "Well, we got our legal opinion...