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...McAdoo Protests Sirs...
...cannot allow your comments upon the death of Senator McAdoo in your Feb. 10 issue to pass without a protest. I don't, as a rule, pay any attention to unfairness such as this, since a publication capable of such things usually sees fit to ignore any protests, but when a man who served his country and his State with outstanding ability, integrity and dignity is spoken of so cheaply ... no one who loved and admired him should pass it by in silence...
...McAdoo ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Four years later he tried again, and deadlocked with New York's Al Smith in a sweltering Madison Square Garden convention that went to 103 ballots before John W. Davis noodled through as the nominee. McAdoo carried away a grudge against Smith that he paid back with interest. He never raised his voice against the anti-Catholic bigotry of the 1928 Smith campaign. In 1932 he delivered the California delegation to Franklin Roosevelt and ended all hopes for Smith. McAdoo himself, with the backing of William Randolph Hearst, went...
...tried in 1938 for another Senatorial term but was beaten for the nomination by Sheridan (Up-and) Downey. McAdoo was then 75. A lean, grey wheel horse of the Democratic Party, politically swaybacked, politically a pensioner, he retired to quieter pastures. Just to keep his hand in, he assumed the chairmanship of the American President Lines...
...McAdoo was in Washington for the inauguration; he was still there last week when he met a greater conqueror than Adolf Hitler. Stricken with a heart attack, a few hours later William Gibbs McAdoo died...