Word: mcadoos
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...Baker. Calvin Coolidge. W. J. Bryan. A. B. Cummins. Champ Clark. W. G. Harding. J. M. Cox. C. E. Hughes. Josephus Daniels. Herbert Hoover. E. I. Edwards. H. W. Johnson. J. W. Gerard. F. O. Lowden. G. M. Hitchcock. J. J. Pershing. T. R. Marshall. Miles Poindexter. W. G. McAdoo. W. H. Taft. A. M. Palmer. Leonard Wood. Woodrow Wilson...
...National City Bank in New York, and from 1909 until within a few months he was president of the same concern. He is chairman of the Board of Directors of the American International Corporation and is a director of a number of other large corporations. During the war, Secretary McAdoo of the Treasury Department, placed him in charge of the war savings campaign. He has recently resigned from his place at the head of the National City Bank and has severed many of his business connections. He is the author of a number of books on business and economic subjects...
Curiosity about next year's presidential nominations grows keener as time goes on, though the situation does not clear up yet. This, offers excellent opportunity for the guessers and prognosticators. The New York Herald has a despatch from Washington which says that ex-Secretary McAdoo's aspirations for the Democratic nomination are now taken for granted. It adds that they are based on the assumption that President Wilson had definitely decided not to be a candidate for renomination, and will devote the rest of his life to leadership of the League of Nations and to literary pursuits. This attractive future...
...time when the public is already burdened by the many demands of the war, Secretary McAdoo announces a measure which means a very considerable raise in railroad rates, both freight and passenger. To observers of railroad history, it offers an interesting commentary on Government regulation of the transportation industry...
...ships to send supplies across the water, we have no supplies to pay for. When we do not build ships up to schedule we are saving the expense of building them. All this is quite axiomatic. But only in part does it account for the improved treasury showing. Mr. McAdoo and his associates undoubtedly thought it best to impress their fellow-countrymen with the seriousness of the situation by very ample estimates; as it turned out, too ample. And all these figures include, of course, our loans to the allies, which are, theoretically, an investment whatever we may think...