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...Shares Calvin Coolidge......................3,000 Norman H. Davis.......................500 Charles D. Hilles ...................2,000 Col. Charles A. Lindbergh......500 Williamm Gibbs McAdoo.....1,000 Gen. John J. Pershing ............500 John J. Raskob .....................2,000 William H. Woodin ...............1,000 Arthur Woods...
Representative Carter Glass wrote his Federal Reserve Act. William Jennings Bryan handled his foreign relations. William Gibbs McAdoo ran the Treasury. Franklin Roosevelt is a practical politician who has surrounded himself with college professors to help him work his executive will. The oldest, closest and most trusted of these is Raymond Moley. He is not a great man but he is a powerful one. His influence on the Administration is felt far beyond his nominal job of Assistant Secretary of State. Through his ear is the shortest and swiftest route to the heart of the White House. He does...
...October 1918 the A. E. F., having overrun St. Mihiel, was bursting its way through the Argonne and all the Allied armies were plowing into the German front. It was an expensive pastime, both in life and money. Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo then had a big problem. Money there had to be, and in October 1918 the U. S. Treasury was very busy drumming up $7,000,000,000 from the U. S. public in exchange for 4th Liberty Loan 4 1/4% bonds payable in October 1938. In the bonds which were delivered to patriotic buyers there...
...Passed a bill by California's McAdoo donating $5,000,000 for earthquake relief in his State; sent it to the House...
Before the Senate passed (43-to-30) the beer bill, it made three changes: 1) a cut in the alcoholic content to 3.05%, the British tax standard for non-intoxicating beer; 2) inclusion of 3.05% wine, slipped in by California's McAdoo despite the universal opinion of vintners that such "wine" would be slop; 3) a prohibition on beer sales to minors, which would in effect give Federal agents supervision over state distribution...