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Where are the candidates of five years ago? Harding is dead. Requiescat. Cox exists. Requiescat. Coolidge sits in the White House, where there is no rest. Lowden is busy farming and perhaps planning for the campaign of '28. McAdoo resides not many miles from San Francisco, where he failed of the nomination in '20. And Wood? Wood is across the Pacific with the Igorots and the Moros and their more civilized but equally quarrelsome neighbors...
...Hearst told another lie in his statement when he said that I met Mr. McAdoo in the rooms of Lewis Nixon and that we named Mr. Davis as the candidate. Notify Mr. Hearst that I say that is a deliberate, wicked, unfounded...
...Santa Barbara arrived William G. McAdoo from Los Angeles and moved into a new house that he had just finished. His arrival had been delayed because his new but incompleted home had been shaken up a bit in a recent earthquake...
Third, she was Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, first lady of the land. (Simultaneously she was the step-mother-in-law of William G. McAdoo...
William G. McAdoo, onetime Secretary of the Treasury (1913-18), Director General of Railways (1917-19), candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination (1924), having attended the Kentucky Derby (TIME, May 25, SPORT), went on to Washington, called on his step-mother-in-law, met his friends and political advisers, went on to Manhattan for similar conferences. "Grooming himself for 1928? Patching party fences? Planning to do away with the Democratic Convention's two thirds vote for nomination?" conjectured correspondents. W. W. Brandon, Governor of Alabama, the stentorian voice who last June called more than 100 times "Twenty foah...