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...Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. McAdoo floated four Liberty Loans totalling $16,940,000,000.* To the Allied Powers during the War he passed out $7,296,000,000 which, with $2,170,000,000 advanced after the Armistice, became the War Debts. As the man directly responsible for these loans, he made their collection in full a major item in his campaign. Said...
...Sham." As Dry as ever was Candidate McAdoo early last year before the Wet wave began to engulf national politics. At that time he solemnly pontificated: "Relegalizing liquor will not put food into a single hungry mouth. ... To make liquor the chief plank in the next national platform is to fight a sham battle because the 18th Amendment is here to stay and the quicker we recognize it the better." This year when the deluge started, Mr. McAdoo became less sure of the permanence of the 18th Amendment. He commenced mumbling the familiar weasel: "Referendum." After his party declared...
Puffs. A 30-year friendship links Mr. McAdoo and Publisher William Randolph Hearst. When Mr. Hearst picked Speaker Garner as a presidential winner last spring, Mr. McAdoo was his first and only important recruit. Mr. Hearst was as much responsible for the shift play at Chicago resulting in the Roosevelt nomination as Mr. McAdoo. They both feared and hated internationally-minded Newton Diehl Baker as a deadlock candidate. Californians were not surprised this month when five Hearstpapers (Los Angeles Examiner and Herald & Express, San Francisco Examiner and Call and Oakland Post-Enquirer) began puffing the McAdoo Senatorial candidacy...
Faithless McAdoo? Justus Wardell, Mr. McAdoo's most serious primary opponent, is a San Francisco business man who worked hard and well for the Brown Derby in 1928 but switched to his old friend Governor Roosevelt this year. Candidate Wardell, a wringing Wet, promises to offer a Repeal resolution immediately on reaching the Senate. Last week at a Wardell campaign luncheon in San Francisco, a speaker loudly accused Mr. McAdoo of "faithlessness to his party," adding: "He didn't support the nominee in 1928 and he ran away to Europe in 1924. He did nothing to stop the campaign...
Omniscient Senator. That Democrat McAdoo, given a Roosevelt victory in November, would be back in Washington, either in the Senate or out, was an opinion widely held by competent political observers last week. The spectacle of his lean, leathery six-foot-one in the Senate Chamber would be enough by itself to excite headlines. His insistent cackling voice would carry to the Press gallery and beyond...