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McAdoo's real political career began when he met Woodrow Wilson in the Princeton, N. J. railroad station in 1910, was so impressed that he helped elect Wilson Governor of New Jersey. Two years later he helped elect him President. He was the New Freedom's Secretary of the Treasury until after the Armistice. "To make it a people's Treasury rather than a bankers' Treasury," McAdoo made national banks pay 2 % interest on Government deposits, helped Carter Glass push through the Federal Reserve Act. The War saw McAdoo's zenith as a public servant...
...great Wilsonian (he had cemented the relationship by marrying Daughter Eleanor Wilson in 1914), McAdoo came near the Democratic Presidential nominations in 1920 and 1924. Sidetracked by New York's Al Smith, McAdoo repaid that score and formed a second political alliance eight years later by helping to sidetrack Al Smith for Franklin Roosevelt at Chicago in 1932. At the same time he ran for the Senate with Hearst and Roosevelt backing, won his first big elective...
...Sick and tired, Philadelphia's Republican Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson announced he would presently take a two-month vacation. Instantly, the Philadelphia Inquirer accused him of making a deal with the Democrats to turn over his office to Controller Robert C. White, Democrat, during the fall election period. Indignant, Mayor Wilson called off his vacation. When the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week tied up until at least mid-September both a grand jury and a legislative investigation of Governor George Howard Earle (TIME, Aug. 8 et ante), the lively Governor took off with Mrs. Earle in a State-owned...
When U. S. railroads returned to private hands after the War, the Transportation Act of 1920 created a U. S. Railroad Labor Board of nine. Woodrow Wilson's sensible appointees were soon succeeded by the patronage appointees of Warren Harding. A strike of 400,000 railroad shopmen in 1922 thoroughly exposed the board's incompetence and in 1926 the Railway Labor Act replaced it with a five-man U. S. Board of Mediation. This failed to succeed because the law provided no penalties for evasion of the board's decisions and because Calvin Coolidge's appointees...
...Actor Prepares, My Life and Art), teacher and philosopher. Once he summed up: "My work with the artist is to open his eyes to . . . those things that must be developed out of his own soul." Died. Edmund Charles Tarbell, 76, portrait painter of such bigwigs as Marshal Foch, Wilson, Coolidge, Hoover; of portal cirrhosis; at New Castle...