Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Nona McAcloo Martin, 19, granddaughter of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo; and Mahlon Kline Jordan, 21, Philadelphia socialite; in Whitemarsh. Pa. Senator McAdoo flew from Washington to give the bride away, arrived 15 minutes late, had to sit in a rear pew while the bride's stepfather, Clayton Platt Jr.. substituted...
Heart of that measure was the provision whereby the President was empowered to license interstate industries and thus club recalcitrant minorities into good behavior on pain of putting them out of business altogether. On motion of Senator McAdoo the Finance Committee cut the heart clean out of the bill. The vote was 12-to-7, with Utah's King, Texas' Connally, Oklahoma's Gore, North Carolina's Bailey, Virginia's Byrd, Missouri's Clark, Democrats all, deserting their President. Final elimination of the license system would leave the Government powerless to enforce its industrial...
Edgar Rickard thought it was "outrageous" to link the names of Hoover and Morgan just because he (Rickard) was on the firm's list. Morgan "friends" were in the Senate (California's McAdoo, New Jersey's Kean), in the Hoover Cabinet (Secretary of the Navy Adams), in the Roosevelt Cabinet (Secretary of the Treasury Woodin), on the Supreme Court (Owen J. Roberts). The Republican party (Treasurer Nutt, New York National Committeeman Hilles) and the Democratic (onetime Chairman Raskob) were both involved. Declared the cautious Kansas City Times: "Those favored by Morgan were placed under obligation...
...Shares Calvin Coolidge......................3,000 Norman H. Davis.......................500 Charles D. Hilles ...................2,000 Col. Charles A. Lindbergh......500 Williamm Gibbs McAdoo.....1,000 Gen. John J. Pershing ............500 John J. Raskob .....................2,000 William H. Woodin ...............1,000 Arthur Woods...
Representative Carter Glass wrote his Federal Reserve Act. William Jennings Bryan handled his foreign relations. William Gibbs McAdoo ran the Treasury. Franklin Roosevelt is a practical politician who has surrounded himself with college professors to help him work his executive will. The oldest, closest and most trusted of these is Raymond Moley. He is not a great man but he is a powerful one. His influence on the Administration is felt far beyond his nominal job of Assistant Secretary of State. Through his ear is the shortest and swiftest route to the heart of the White House. He does...