Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brookline, Mass. Chief counsel in many a great case, he attained prominence in 1917 as counsel for Congress in the investigation of the "leak" of President Wilson's peace note to belligerents, which brought an orgy of speculation in Wall Street and charges that Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and others had profited by their advance information...
Revival of the case of Jeanne Eagels focused attention on her physician, Dr. Edward Spencer Cowles, 51, neurologist, psychiatrist, son-in-law of William Gibbs McAdoo, proprietor of the Park Avenue Hospital. A licensed physician since 1907, Dr. Cowles is not considered "orthodox." He is not a member of any local or state medical society, nor of the American Medical Association. Nor does the A. M. A. accept his sanitarium for its register of hospitals. Nevertheless his personality, his shrewdness, his results have won him many a famed and wealthy patient and his little stucco establishment between two churches...
Free Speech. In Los Angeles, Calif., the Record engaged the law firm headed by William Gibbs McAdoo, onetime U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, to defend it against contempt of court charges. Record editorials and cartoons had smitten the grand jury and prosecutor in an investigation of alleged corruption attendant upon the famed Julian Petroleum case. Defense : the grand jury and district attorney are not The Court. Snorted Publisher Henry Birdice Richmond Briggs: "Next time, like enough, they will pretend that the bailiff who pounds the gavel and the scrubwoman who cleans out the judicial cuspidor is (sic) sacrosanct...