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...virtual erasure of the U. S. merchant marine is a major and unnecessary tragedy. After earnest counsel with Rear Admiral Emory Scott Land of the Maritime Commission, he presented to the Senate, with his peculiar, Biblical eloquence, the Admiral's conclusions. (Meantime his onetime colleague, cadaverous William Gibbs McAdoo, now head of the American President Line, used his prerogative as an ex-Senator to lobby slickly on the Senate floor for Pacific Coast shipping...
Adopted. By William Gibbs McAdoo,* 77, and his third wife, Doris Cross McAdoo, 30, his grandson, Richard de Onate, 4, son of a divorced & remarried daughter, Ellen Wilson McAdoo de Onate Hinshaw...
...further news of Ex-Senator McAdoo...
...attorneys for Northern Ohio Power & Light (now Ohio Edison Co.) and other "vested intersts" (the Willkie Indiana pronunciation). He also mixed in politics: debated against the Ku Klux Klan, spoke for the progressive doctrines of Bob La Follette, the elder, fought the nomination of William Gibbs McAdoo at the 1924 Democratic convention because of the Klan issue. In 1926 aristocratic Public Utilitarian Bernard Capen Cobb wrote to an officer of his Northern Ohio Power & Light: "Do not let this young man get away from us. . . . He is a comer and we should keep...
Richard B. McAdoo...