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2 days ago · That year, the Democrats were badly divided between an urban wing, led by Smith, and a conservative, rural wing, led by William Gibbs McAdoo. On the 101st ballot, the nomination went to John W. Davis, a compromise candidate who suffered a landslide defeat in the 1924 presidential election. Like many throughout the United States, Roosevelt did ...
4 days ago · McAdoo Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6708 held a ceremony to honor fallen veterans in the borough on Monday. The post’s honor guard fired a salute for the fallen, and the post commander played ...
5 days ago · Sunday's Anthracite Region Antique Automobile Club of America's Annual Car Show, McAdoo, drew a steady stream of attendees all day long. Here, Alan and Ilona Kerr, Tamaqua, take a few moments to relax...
2 days ago · Roosevelt resta en butte à l'hostilité affichée du président du parti, John Jakob Raskob, mais reçut le soutien financier de William Randolph Hearst, de Joseph P. Kennedy (le père du futur président John F. Kennedy), de William Gibbs McAdoo et d’Henry Morgenthau.
2 days ago · Roll calls continue until one candidate has a majority: the 1924 Democratic National Convention holds the record as the longest ever, as divisions within the party concerning Prohibition led to 102 ballots between Alfred E. Smith and William G. McAdoo, before the relatively unknown John W. Davis was chosen as a compromise candidate on the 103rd ...
4 days ago · She was a graduate of McAdoo High School, Class of 1954. Mary Jane worked a number of careers before retiring as a claims representative with the Social Security Administration in 2001.
3 days ago · William Baker will celebrate the Mass of Christian Burial in Church of All Saints, McAdoo, at 11 a.m. Interment will follow in Immaculate Conception Cemetery, McAdoo.
