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...California's McAdoo, Nebraska's Norris, New York's Wagner, Missouri's Clark and Montana's Wheeler uprose to chime assent. No Senator raised his voice in objection. No Senator knows when he himself may be heading an investigation, needing all the power he can command...
...chain which James's heirs published in partnership with the late Byron Hilton Canfield.* Day before elections in 1932, after both partners' deaths, the 9 a. m. edition of the Record appeared with a front-page editorial boosting its old friend & favorite, William Gibbs McAdoo, for the Senate. One hour later the Record came out with the McAdoo editorial missing, in its place an urgent plea for the election of the Rev. Robert Pierce ("Fighting Bob'') Shuler, Prohibition candidate whom the Record had long flayed as a '"snooper" and "meddler." Readers who thought the editor...
Informed that the Committee had only $400 of its $125,000 appropriation left, Senator Connally promised that he "and some other Senators" would try to see that it got not another dollar. When he had finished his tirade, Senator McAdoo, President Wilson's onetime son-in-law and Wartime Secretary of the Treasury, rushed up to pump his hand...
...long historical documents were read, as the examination rambled over them without startling disclosures, as day by day the evidence showed no visible connection between the House of Morgan and Secretaries McAdoo and Lansing, who alone appeared to have urged President Wilson to let war loans be floated in the U. S., the Press grew disgusted with the whole proceeding. Between sessions newshawks flocked around the old financier, who was the soul of amiability in answering questions and posing for photographs. Finally one morning when, as oldsters will, Mr. Morgan closed his eyes and quietly dozed off during the proceedings...
...Philadelphia." The pain fulness of that scene was only erased that afternoon by the excitement of picking a convention city in which fo renominate Franklin Roosevelt. A sporting atmosphere was introduced right at the start by canny William Gibbs McAdoo. Speaking in behalf of San Francisco, California's Democratic Senator inquired of Boss Farley: "Is this going to be a poker game or a straight...