Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flying home to California from a conference with President-elect Roosevelt, William Gibbs McAdoo was forced down at New Orleans by fog. Said he: "Republicans have had the milking teat of the cow too long. We're going to change that...
...Happy Warrior" phrase with which Mr. Roosevelt twice nominated Al Smith. He handles the Governor's private mail, private business, private house in Manhattan. During the pre-convention campaign he was the "inside man," while Jim Farley was working in the spotlight. It was straight to Col. Howe the McAdoo men went at the Chicago convention when they were ready to dicker on a shift from Garner to Roosevelt...
...which will dominate the country for four years. In Congress. Democrat battles Democrat as to what is good party doctrine. The Democratic Press of William Randolph Hearst is rarely in tune with that of Adolph, Ochs, Baruch, Young, Baker & Co. hold ideas opposite from those of Dill, Long, Wheeler, McAdoo & Co.?yet all are Democrats. An Irish Catholic in Boston, a Russian Jew in Chicago and a white Protestant in Atlanta think on different tangents?yet all are Democrats...
...Tubbs v. McAdoo v. Shuler. In California Rev. Robert Pierce ("Bob") Shuler, Prohibition nominee for the Senate against Republican Tallant Tubbs and Democrat William Gibbs McAdoo bought three sacks of onions for 90? in San Joaquin Valley. Said he to the onion farmer: "I'm going to take these sacks of onions to Washington, eat 'em every day and blow my breath all over the Senators until they pass laws to allow the growers to make money." Nominee McAdoo's theme song: "Send me to Washington. I'll guarantee I won't need someone...
Governor Roosevelt Al Smith Vice President Curtis Bernarr Macfadden Speaker Garner Mrs. Roosevelt & children Theodore Roosevelt William Jennings Bryan James Aloysius Farley Theodore Roosevelt Jr. William Gibbs McAdoo Samuel Instill William Randolph Hearst Senator Reed Smoot The Forgotten Man Senator Huey Long Eugene Meyer Vincent Astor Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole Eddie Dowling James John Walker Mrs. Pauline Morton Sabin Samuel Seabury John Francis Curry Secretary of Treasury Mills John H. McCooey General Douglas MacArthur Secretary of War Hurley