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Ditched by George Creel, whom he defeated in the Democratic primary, and cast adrift by the Roosevelt Administration, Nominee Sinclair could draw little encouragement from a belated speech by California's Senator McAdoo at Phoenix, Ariz, in which he ambiguously declared: "I am supporting the Democratic party in California as I am supporting the Demo-cratic party in Arizona and the Demo-cratic party in America." Senator McAdoo's law partner, William H. Neblett, was voting for Republican Nominee Frank Merriam because "Sinclair's program is nothing more than a contest of the unemployed against the employed...
...office of the Riverside, Calif. County Clerk, Ellen Wilson McAdoo, 19, pretty, vivacious daughter of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, granddaughter of Woodrow Wilson, filed notice of intention to marry one Rafael Lopez de Onate, 38, occasional cinemactor and native of Manila. The crafty clerk took refuge in the California statute which forbids marriages between Caucasians and Filipinos. De Onate, he told them, must prove his claim that he is a full-blooded Spaniard. "Now all our plans are spoiled." lamented Ellen. "But," added Rafael Lopez de Onate, "that doesn't mean we have given up hope...
From the law office of McAdoo & Neblett, Colonel William Haynie Neblett hastened to inform the Press: "All she has is a monthly allowance given her by her father. This and all future aid will be denied her if she goes ahead with her wild plan to marry a man whom her father has never seen." From a call on Mrs. McAdoo, who divorced the Senator last summer (TIME, July 30). Colonel Neblett emerged with the news that Ellen had "disappeared," that her mother was "prostrate in bed." Said he : "I don't know where she is but it seems...
Early next morning Ellen was home and her "prostrate" mother was protesting: "They were out driving." To put an end to Ellen's drives, McAdoo & Neblett next confiscated her car. Retorted Ellen: "I can walk. And I will walk...
...expression of aristocratic disdain are just what modistes and manufacturers desire as a symbol of the superiority of their wares. Twenty years old, a debutante of 1932, known as "Mimsy" to her friends, Miss Taylor is the daughter of Bertrand L. Taylor and the present Mrs. Francis H. McAdoo. She is careful to avoid posing for any of the more intimate feminine accessories, but she is always available for such publications as Vogue, such smart shops as Jay Thorpe and Saks Fifth Avenue. From them she asks and gets $50 an hour. Most of what she makes she spends...