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...race for governorship nominations. Many were the candidates. On the Republican side, Acting Governor Merriam, Lawyer Raymond LeRoy Haight and former Governor Clement Calhoun Young were among those asking voters to listen to their eloquence. On the Democratic side George Creel, Wartime Chief of Propaganda, backed by William Gibbs McAdoo; Justus Wardell, oldtime politician, and a handful of others all called to Californians to heed them. But the man whom Californians heeded?favorably and unfavorably?had no machine backing, was no politician and broke all the rules of politics. He was journalist, pamphleteer, reformer, and his name was Upton Sinclair...
Suing for Divorce. Mrs. Ethel McCormack McAdoo Keith, 39, stepdaughter of the late Isaac Edward Emerson (Bromo-Seltzer), onetime wife of Francis McAdoo, eldest son of Senator William Gibbs McAdoo; from Walter Winchester Keith, Baltimore socialite; in Towson...
...probably the privatest citizen you ever saw," announced California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo as he sailed from Manhattan to find some "excitement" in Europe. ". . . There is no excitement in Congress. It's just work. Congress is a chain gang." A fellow passenger came up and slapped him on the back. "Who's that man?" demanded Senator McAdoo as the other walked off. "It's a good thing I didn't meet him when I had my carbuncle...
Last week in Los Angeles' Superior Court a ceremony as simple and short as that of 20 years ago effected the divorce of Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, 43, from Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, 70. At 3:48 p. m. Mrs. McAdoo's complaint was legally filed. A few minutes later Judge Allan B. Campbell heard her assent to its charges: 1) Senator McAdoo spent most of his time in Washington, where her health would not permit her to live; 2) his interests were political, hers artistic; 3) because of this incompatibility she had suffered mental cruelty. Her doctor confirmed...
Last time the McAdoos travelled together was in 1933 when they went abroad, she to put Ellen, 18, elder of their two daughters, in school in Paris, he to visit Russia. When she returned she spent a few days in Washington and then departed, not to be seen in the capital again. The Senator remained alone in Washington all winter, all spring. At 70 he is still almost as good a dancer as he was at 50. When one of the Senate pages, having spied him dancing at the Shoreham Hotel with Rose, pretty young daughter of U. S. Tariff...