Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colorado and Nevada are Senate primary contests in which rebellious Democratic incumbents are being opposed by 100% Rooseveltists (see p. 12). The President will swing through these two States on his way to California, where faithful Senator McAdoo will undoubtedly see him off on a Pacific fishing trip. A plan to combine with fishing a goodwill visit to the west coast of South America was not, last week, finally worked out. C. To the White House Franklin Roosevelt called his Congressional wheelhorses to ask them whether there was any chance of reviving and ramming through the Reorganization Bill this session...
...Last fortnight California's William Gibbs McAdoo, facing a tough four-corner fight, was able to pull an encouraging "Dear Mac" letter from his pocket...
...record for or against, withheld the sunshine of his Interdepartmental Committee report on international broadcasting. With the most authoritative witness out of the picture, the Celler Bill hearings were postponed indefinitely. A similar end was expected by Senator Dennis Chavez to the hearings on his Chavez-McAdoo Bill, which, like the Celler Bill, would authorize the Government to send anti-Fascist propaganda to South America over its own station...
...with hearings on the Celler Bill scheduled for this week, Senator Bone's Interstate Commerce subcommittee beat the lower house to the punch by opening rival hearings on the Chavez-McAdoo Government Station Bill. The proposal is similar to the Celler Bill, except that it places the station in San Diego, Calif.; jumps Representative Celler's $700,000 construction and $50,000 maintenance ante to $3,000,000 and $100,000; omits specific provisions for domestic broadcasting; gives the Secretary of State responsibility for programs...
Interest in the Senate hearings was so slight, however, that Senator Bone was the only member of his subcommittee present. Undaunted, Dennis Chavez, whom Co-Sponsor William Gibbs McAdoo credits with originating the bill, emphasized the importance of San Diego as the station site. He explained that San Diego would click with Latin-American audiences on account of its Spanish name, that a station at the San Diego Naval Base would be useful to the Navy...