Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Come on! Let's!" crowed Mr. McAdoo. Cameras clicked and resultant photographs exhibited California's tallest political rivals pumping hands like old friends...
First Call. If not elected to the Senate, what part would Mr. McAdoo play in a Roosevelt administration? That he would play some part is generally taken for granted. Governor Roosevelt owes him an incalculable political debt for delivering 90 convention votes when they meant the difference between triumph and disaster. And Mr. McAdoo did not turn the course of history for nothing. He expected and got the vice-presidential nomination for his and Hearst's man Garner. He stopped the bolt-to-Baker. He crushed Alfred Emanuel Smith, thus avenging Madison Square Garden. Above all, by all the rules...
Runners. Of more importance than office to Mr. McAdoo, however, was his chance to command the ear of the man who may next occupy the White House. Every President gathers about him a little group of party insiders who may be said to "run" him. He heeds their advice, follows their suggestions. President Harding was "run" by Secretary of State Hughes, Attorney General Daugherty, Interior Secretary Fall and Mrs. Harding. The real powers in the Coolidge administration were Massachusetts' Senator Butler, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and Speaker of the House Longworth. President Hoover's ear is wide open...
Chief among these new allies are such men as Washington's Dill, Louisiana's Long, Montana's Wheeler, North Carolina's Daniels, California's McAdoo. Each & every one of them would like to "run" a Democratic President. Their political claims to that privilege seriously handicap Governor Roosevelt in the East. By alarmed Republicans he is depicted as an "unsafe" leader in "unsafe" company. Even President Hoover raised the cry of radicalism against his opponent in his acceptance speech. But Governor Roosevelt is a smart politician and sometimes it is good politics to give the appearance of being "run" by this...
Forgotten Man. California does not look upon Mr. McAdoo as a dangerous radical. He practices good substantial law at Los Angeles, has a rambling summer home at Santa Barbara. Like anyone else, he golfs, swims, rides, drives his Lincoln touring car 70 m. p. h. Most Californians, regardless of politics, regard him as a good neighbor...