Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secularize the Dry cause became the purpose of Allied Forces. Dr. Poling called it a "new deal." Among its sponsors was no long list of churchmen but such names as Thomas Alva Edison, Gifford Pinchot, Jane Addams, Evangeline Booth, Patrick Henry Callahan, Oliver Wayne Stewart, Raymond Robins, William Gibbs McAdoo, Orrin R. Judd...
...great Alexander Hamilton doing the best he could, the U. S. went into the Red with Deficit No. 1 amounting to $1,409,500. The record deficit of $14,297,760,000 occurred in 1919. This, of course, was the piling up of War charges under Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo...
William Gibbs McAdoo: "The report commits suicide and leaves us weeping at its grave...
Died. Mrs. Eva Lee Tardy McAdoo, relict of the late William McAdoo (New York City's longtime chief magistrate, onetime New Jersey Representative in Congress. Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Friends & admirers of honest Magistrate McAdoo, who left only $500, had donated $33,000 toward a $100,000 fund to keep Mrs. McAdoo and her daughter...
...Seymour Parker Gilbert was made Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under William Gibbs McAdoo. Later he served under Carter Glass, then under David Franklin Houston. When Secretary Mellon was appointed he promoted Mr. Gilbert, for skill and industry, from a $5,000-a-year Assistant Secretaryship to the $10,000-a-year Under Secretaryship. In 1923 Mr. Gilbert resigned to re-enter law, but a few months later was called upon to succeed Owen D. Young as Reparations Agent General. He is shy, no socialite. In 1924 he was married. He likes...