Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...door. The Port of New York Authority wanted financial help to start a second vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River at a cost of $75,000,000. For joint fee of $5,000 Los Angeles hired Joseph Scott. Hoover nominator at Chicago, and William Gibbs McAdoo, Roosevelt stampeder at Chicago, to wangle a $32.000,000 loan with which to build a power transmission line from Hoover Dam. A Miami citizen sought $12,000,000 to build a highway bridge from the mainland to Key West. New York's crafty Mayor Walker prepared for a grandstand demand...
...first time, conversed animatedly for two hours. Much of their talk concerned the Democratic Convention scene, which they both witnessed, in which William Gibbs McAdoo swung the California and Texas delegations from Garner to Roosevelt. Reported the New York Times: ''Some of those present said that, despite their traditional political differences, Mr. Smith and Mrs. Longworth found themselves in complete harmony in their views of Mr. McAdoo. . . . Mrs. Longworth said . . . that she thought the former Governor was 'a grand...
...deal to be a dole . . . or some form of bureaucratic collectivism? . . . The Governor may be honestly trying to give us a new deal but he is dealing from the same old deck from which William Jennings Bryan gave the American people so many 'new deals'. . . . Beware, Governor! Mr. McAdoo, Mr. Hearst and Speaker Garner may have stacked the deck...
...over mental hygiene has been occupying Episcopalians in Manhattan for several weeks. Scene was the old Church of St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie, where Peter Stuyvesant lies buried. Medicine was represented by mysterious, some say hypnotic Dr. Edward Spencer Cowles, 52, son-in-law of William Gibbs McAdoo, fashionable neurologist, psychiatrist, director of the Park Avenue Hospital where died Actress Jeanne Eagels of an overdose of heroin and rich young William E. Swift of Chicago by suicide (TIME, June 9, Sept. 1, 1930). The Episcopal Church was represented by the conservative vestry of St. Mark...
Last June the Body & Soul Clinic, declaring that it had thus far treated more than 400,000 ailing New Yorkers, held a tenth anniversary celebration in Town Hall. Greetings were received from friends and directors, including Father-in-law McAdoo, Lawyers Samuel Untermyer and George Gordon Battle, Episcopal Church Historian E. Clowes Chorley, Editor Guy Emery Shipler of The Churchman. Former patients appeared to tell of their cures, which each called "a modern miracle." The Town Hall meeting was startled when Lawyer Dudley Field Malone arose and shouted that Bishop Manning was "plotting" to remove the Body & Soul Clinic from...