Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State. A Smith campaign had been conducted by good 1928 friends of the Brown Derby - Parson M. Abbott, David F. Supple, Edward W. Cahill -whose strategy was to depend on old loyalties rather than new issues. Meantime the Garner candidacy was backed by three potent Californians - William Gibbs McAdoo, William Randolph Hearst, Will Rogers. The onetime Secretary of the Treasury, heading the slate of Garner delegates, actively campaigned while Publisher Hearst and Funnyman Rogers boomed...
Visiting Howard Coffin at Sea Island Beach, Ga. Campaigner McAdoo McAdoodled: "The first real test of strength has been settled. . . . This not only makes Garner a formidable contestant for the presidential nomination but it is a serious and perhaps irreparable blow to the Roosevelt candidacy...
...Favorite Sons forces might hold a one-third veto power over the convention but there was no sign yet of their combining on a candidate who could muster the nominative two-thirds majority of 770. The idea of Al Smith sitting down to dicker with his old foes, Messrs. McAdoo and Hearst, produced only grins among those who recalled the Battle of Madison Square Garden...
Kurzman to Constable. Since 1905 the 73-year-old specialty shop of Kurzman has been on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. From it have gone many notable trousseaus. The White House bridal gear of Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Mrs. Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, Mrs. Jessie Wilson Sayre and the second Mrs. Woodrow Wilson were from Kurzman...
Among the Democrats, another deadlock was visioned, similar to the one of 1924 when Smith and McAdoo fought through endless ballots until John W. Davis was substituted as a compromise candidate. In the event of a stalemate being reached between the supporters of Roosevelt and the powerful opposing bloc it is not unlikely that Newton D. Baker will be the compromise candidate. At present, Smith seems out of the running while Roosevelt is continually recruiting strength from all over the country...