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...control. The Smith faction, captained by Jersey City's hardboiled Frank Hague and backed by Tammany Hall, was relentlessly bitter in its opposition. Mayor Hague had attacked Governor Roosevelt as the "weakest man" to nominate. The California and Texas forces of Speaker Garner, led by lean, leathery William Gibbs McAdoo, had lined up with the Brown Derby on every convention vote so far. The minor candidates had stood their ground for a break that never came. The loss of one Roosevelt State on the next roll-call would mean disaster...
Also on the heels of the Rockefeller switch, William Gibbs McAdoo, longtime temperance champion, came out with a defensive proposal. The legal machinery for resubmission or repeal would grind too slowly to be effective, thought he. Although legalists had argued that the Constitution does not provide for popular balloting on general questions. Lawyer McAdoo observed that the Congress was empowered "to provide for the general welfare of the United States." He proposed that the next President call a special session of Congress to empower him to proclaim "a national advisory referendum." Well aware that this liberal Prohibitionist policy...
Visiting Howard Coffin at Sea Island Beach, Ga. Campaigner McAdoo McAdoodled: "The first real test of strength has been settled. . . . This not only makes Garner a formidable contestant for the presidential nomination but it is a serious and perhaps irreparable blow to the Roosevelt candidacy...
...Favorite Sons forces might hold a one-third veto power over the convention but there was no sign yet of their combining on a candidate who could muster the nominative two-thirds majority of 770. The idea of Al Smith sitting down to dicker with his old foes, Messrs. McAdoo and Hearst, produced only grins among those who recalled the Battle of Madison Square Garden...
Kurzman to Constable. Since 1905 the 73-year-old specialty shop of Kurzman has been on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. From it have gone many notable trousseaus. The White House bridal gear of Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Mrs. Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, Mrs. Jessie Wilson Sayre and the second Mrs. Woodrow Wilson were from Kurzman...