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...year he was admitted to the Tennessee bar, lean, virile William Gibbs McAdoo, 22, married Sarah Houstoun Fleming of Chattanooga. She bore him six children, saw him grow rich & famed, died in 1912. Next year Mr. McAdoo became Woodrow Wilson's first Secretary of the Treasury and, somewhat hopelessly because he was already a grandfather and twice her age, began courting the youngest of the President's three daughters. On a bench near the foot of the Washington Monument one December evening he plucked up courage, proposed, was accepted. Secretary McAdoo, 50, and Eleanor Randolph Wilson, 24, were...
...political consort of "Diamond Lil" Democracy, aglitter with John J. Raskob's vulgar diamonds. To climax the feud Publisher Hearst in the 1932 Chicago convention swung his Garner delegates to Franklin D. Roosevelt thus insuring the latter's nomination. Muttered deeply disgruntled Democrat Smith: "As long as Hearst and McAdoo are running the Democratic Party, I don't want anything to do with...
Treasury looked around at a ring of smiling faces including those of two former Secretaries of the Treasury, Carter Glass and William G. McAdoo...
Last week the Senate got around to discussing "pink slip" repeal. California's McAdoo had it on the best authority, he solemnly announced, that the nation's widows and widowers were planning a mass scrutiny of pink slips in a hunt for wealthy mates. Texas' Connally said one of his constituents wanted the publicity provision repealed so that his inquisitive mother-in-law could not determine his income, get her allowance raised...
Divorced. Tallant Tubbs, Republican opponent of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo in 1932; by Mrs. Olivia Pillsbury Tubbs, daughter of President Horace Davis Pillsbury of Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co.; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty...