Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Launching his campaign for reelection, California's 74-year-old Senator William Gibbs McAdoo produced a two-months-old letter beginning "Dear Mac." signed by Franklin Roosevelt. Its purport: "I earnestly hope that you will run again...
...walked out on a Congressional committee trying to investigate his $200-per-month pension plan, in May 1936-seemed almost eager to get behind bars. He was planning, he said, to work on his autobiography during his incarceration. He scoffed at efforts on the part of Senator William G. McAdoo, who in the past had made no secret of his scorn of Planner Townsend, to get him pardoned...
...just as Planner Townsend was about to give himself into the hands of a U. S. Marshal to begin his term, word came that Franklin Roosevelt had lent a sympathetic ear to Senator McAdoo, had pardoned Planner Townsend. Apparently not in the least crestfallen at losing a month's privacy and martyrdom, Dr. Townsend said: "It is complete vindication and an act of contrition on the part of Congress...
Divorced. Ellen Wilson McAdoo de Onate, 22, fourth daughter of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo and granddaughter of the late Woodrow Wilson; from Rafael Lopez de Onate, 41. Philippine-born cinemactor; in Los Angeles. Charge: nonsupport...
...office of Collector of Customs for the Port of Los Angeles Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on the recommendation of Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, appointed a well-to-do 48-year-old Los Angeles lawyer who bears one of the most famed names in U. S. political history: William Jennings Bryan...