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Word: mcadoos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Wilson's three daughters, Spinster Margaret and Eleanor McAdoo live. Neither was among the Foundation banqueteers, nor was Mr. McAdoo, who had flown from California to take his seat in the Senate this week. But present was Widow Edith Boiling Gait Wilson (second wife) who chatted and shook hands with another great Wartime leader, pale old General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing. Also there was Francis Bowes Sayre, the other Wilsonian son-in-law whom President Roosevelt had made Assistant Secretary of State. His two children, Francis Bowes Sayre Jr. and Eleanor Axson Sayre, laid a wreath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Twelve Years After | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

...minor role in Dark Victory, a new play by George Brewster Jr., was ably played at a New Haven tryout by Tallant Tubbs, 36, wealthy San Francisco ropemaker who in 1932 was defeated for the Senate in California by William Gibbs McAdoo. As a socialite playboy Actor Tubbs pops on & off stage trying to con sole a beauteous Parkavian heroine after she is stricken with brain trouble, loses zest for her customary pleasures. "I'm giving the role everything I've got," said Actor Tubbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 8, 1934 | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

...herded the Cabinet about, told distinguished visitors, where to stand, what to say. As guardian of the front door, he knew whom to let in, whom to keep out. He managed the White House weddings of Alice Lee Roosevelt to Nicholas Longworth, of Eleanor Randolph Wilson to William Gibbs McAdoo. President Wilson trusted him with the secrets of his romance with Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait, let him arrange their marriage. Tall, immaculate, dignified Chief Usher Hoover's manners were rated second only to those of Oliver Wendell Holmes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death of Hoover | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

California's lanky Senator William Gibbs McAdoo & wife sailed for Europe. Asked whether there was any official significance in his proposed visit to Russia, Senator McAdoo replied: "Not a damn bit ... I am going as a U. S. Senator looking for information. I can never learn enough about things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 25, 1933 | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...cattle. No Roosevelt goes West without stopping off to visit her at Tucson or Williams. An able Democrat, she has been Arizona's national committeewoman since 1928. At the Chicago convention last year she seconded the Roosevelt nomination and had a large hand in engineering the McAdoo switch. Her House seat will be her first public office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Lady at Large | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

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