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...August 1915, prompted by an inquiry from the late James B. Forgan, president of Chicago's First National Bank, about the Government's attitude toward the flotation of a British loan in the U. S. to help pay for Allied purchases, Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo wrote to President Wilson urging that permission be granted. Said he : "The high prices for food products have brought great prosperity to our farmers, while the purchases of war munitions have stimulated industry and have set factories going to full capacity throughout the great manufacturing districts, while the reduction of imports...
Said Senator Clark: "I think that when Morgan & Co. stepped out from under and permitted the sterling exchange to flop, pressure was brought to bear on McAdoo...
Married. Mrs. Nona McAdoo de Mohrenschildt Cowles, daughter of Senator William Gibbs McAdoo; to Francis Baylor, socialite, of Manhattan; in Mlexico City, where she divorced her second husband, Dr. Edward Spencer Bowles, Manhattan psychiatrist...
...entirely mail, Postmaster General Farley was asked to play the lead in the hour's program. Other speaking parts were taken by Pan American's President Juan Terry Trippe, California's Governor Frank Finley Merriam, Hawaii's Governor Joseph Boyd Poindexter, Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, the Philippine's President Manuel Quezon, China Clipper's Captain Musick, and the personified "Voices" of Pan American bases at Honolulu, Midway, Wake, Guam, Manila. By a complicated use of short wave, all these scattered personalities chimed in with appropriate sentiments which were broadcast over a nationwide hookup...
...Senator McAdoo : "It seems incredible...