Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Faithless McAdoo? Justus Wardell, Mr. McAdoo's most serious primary opponent, is a San Francisco business man who worked hard and well for the Brown Derby in 1928 but switched to his old friend Governor Roosevelt this year. Candidate Wardell, a wringing Wet, promises to offer a Repeal resolution immediately on reaching the Senate. Last week at a Wardell campaign luncheon in San Francisco, a speaker loudly accused Mr. McAdoo of "faithlessness to his party," adding: "He didn't support the nominee in 1928 and he ran away to Europe in 1924. He did nothing to stop the campaign...
Omniscient Senator. That Democrat McAdoo, given a Roosevelt victory in November, would be back in Washington, either in the Senate or out, was an opinion widely held by competent political observers last week. The spectacle of his lean, leathery six-foot-one in the Senate Chamber would be enough by itself to excite headlines. His insistent cackling voice would carry to the Press gallery and beyond...
Were the Republicans attacking the Democrats for lending so much to the Allies? Senator McAdoo would arise and instruct the chamber on what he, as Secretary of the Treasury, had done on foreign loans. Was a bill up to make over the Federal Reserve? Senator McAdoo would oblige with an account of how he, its first chairman, started the system. Railroads? Senator McAdoo had run them for a year as Director General. Labor? Senator McAdoo had raised rail workers' pay $875,000,000 back in 1918. Agriculture? Senator McAdoo, as its first chairman, put the Federal Farm Loan Board...
Cackles & Shakes. As if to pave his way into the sacred chamber, Mr. McAdoo dropped into the Senate lobby last July before adjournment. Democrats, aware that he had just nominated their presidential candidate at Chicago, nocked about him warmly, wrung his bony hand. Mississippi's Harrison and Georgia's Cohen sang his praises to the Press. Even California's Republican Johnson had a friendly greeting for him. The McAdoo grin permeated the lobby. "Hello . . . hello . . . hello . . . hello," he cackled to one & all. Suddenly his narrow eye fell upon Senator Shortridge, his probable opponent in November, sitting quietly...
...hello! hello, there!" he shrilled before Senator Shortridge could sneak decently out of sight. Bubbling enthusiastically, Mr. McAdoo insisted upon shaking the Shortridge hand...