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...William Gibbs McAdoo, Mr. Baker's Cabinet colleague, wrote in his autobiographical Crowded Years: "Baker used to sit at his desk at the War Department with one leg curled up under him. . . . On his desk there was always a fresh pansy...
...seven years that followed 1915 the Wabash was far from the only major railroad in trouble. This period included government operation under William Gibbs McAdoo. In these years the following carriers went into receivership: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Western Pacific; International & Great Northern; Missouri, Kansas & Texas; Missouri Pacific ; St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern; Baltimore & Maine; Texas & Pacific; Denver & Rio Grande...
Rarely mentioned about the White House these days is the Wartime period when, as Food Administrator, Herbert Hoover got his political start under a Democratic President. Fortnight ago William Gibbs McAdoo, null Wilson's Secretary of the Treasury and Director-General of Railways, published his autobiography Crowded Years* Politically minded readers thumbed through it to see what this Democrat would say about the man who later became a Republican President. They found two mentions each with a sting...
...McAdoo described Mr. Hoover's panicky interview of February 1918. in which he predicted a 60-day food crisis and blamed rail congestion. After some fruitless correspondence Mr. Hoover, with his legal adviser, called at the McAdoo office. Writes Mr. McAdoo: "Glasgow [the legal adviser] did all the talking. Hoover sat with downcast eyes, like a diffident schoolboy. I do not recall that he had anything to say. Glasgow told me . . . Mr. Hoover regretted his statement [and] that its publication was a mistake. ... I said I thought Mr. Hoover should make his complaints...
Referring to the Wilson practice of "adjourning politics" and appointing Republicans to office, Mr. McAdoo declared: "It was a wise course and it gave some of the Republican leaders of today their start in political life. Herbert Hoover was one. Hoover was a practically unknown man who had spent most of his adult life abroad. . . . His chief distinction had been acquired in distributing free food to the Belgian people-a celebrity easily won. I fancy, as the job of giving away things requires very little wear and tear on one's ability...