Word: son-in-law
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...Wilson had merely to choose who would be the next President, he would select David F. Houston, who was Secretary of Agriculture and later Secretary of the Treasury in the Wilson Cabinet. At any rate, Mr. Wilson is understood to have no particular brief to hold for his son-in-law. He is perhaps opposite minded, and is expected to remain neutral as to the choice of a Democratic candidate. On the other hand, Mr. Wilson would like to press the League of Nations issue, which Mr. McAdoo prefers to ignore as unprofitable. The former President's open opposition would...
...McCormick remarks are not to be interpreted, however, entirely in the light of Hiram Johnson's candidacy. Senator McCormick is a son-in-law of the late Mark Hanna, the great Republican boss. He got into politics through journalism. Beginning as reporter, he advanced to publisher and principal owner of the Chicago Daily Tribune. He was sucked into politics by the Payne-Aldrich Tariff bill, joined with Roosevelt and the Progressives in the fight on Taft in 1912. Then his comrades-in-arms were Gifford Pinchot and Hiram Johnson. In 1916, however, he returned to the Republican fold...
McAdoo. President Wilson's son-in-law, William G. McAdoo, busily engaged in rounding up delegates to the Democratic National Convention, took himself to Manhattan. There he conferred with David Rockwell of Ohio, one of his pre-convention campaign managers, and received the assurances of Thomas B. Love, Democratic National Committeeman from Texas, that the Lone Star state would be solidly behind him at the Convention. Mr. McAdoo has the most votes lined up for the Democratic Convention of any candidate, but he has far fewer than the necessary 729(one-third). New York is adverse to his advances...
...interesting to see together three of the gayest spinners of romantic yarns. Lloyd Osborne, the son-in-law and collaborator of Robert Louis Stevenson, florid, tall, grey; George Barr McCutcheon, always jovial and kindly; Farnol, shorter than either of them, quite unimpressive until he bubbles over with some sudden enthusiasm for an anecdote...
...some of my obligations. ... I happen to be Governor of Indiana, but this is a private matter that has happened to other farmers. The state has not suffered. I do not see that the public should be greatly interested." William Jennings Bryan went to California to visit his son-in-law. There he took opportunity to say that President Coolidge would probably receive the Republican Presidential nomination in 1924, but as for the Democratic choice, "We have a great many available men. There's scarcely a state-North, South, East or West-that could not furnish a capable...