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Apr 25, 2024 · William G McAdoo. William G McAdoo had a long political career that including serving as Secretary of the Treasury, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Director General of the U.S. Railroads, and a U.S. Senator. He was also famously the son-in-law of President Woodrow Wilson.
May 14, 2024 · John W. Davis, a dark horse, eventually won the presidential nomination on the 103rd ballot, a compromise candidate following a protracted convention fight between distant front-runners William Gibbs McAdoo and Al Smith.
- June 24 – July 9, 1924
May 13, 2024 · (The novel The Gaudi Facade by J. S. Raynor, casts these businessmen as Edward T. Carlton, an American hotelier, and William Gibbs McAdoo, the president of the New York and New Jersey...
Apr 30, 2024 · In line with their party’s claim to credit for American prosperity, Wilson and Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo indulged in simple triumphalism. Footnote 13 The leading monetarist, Irving Fisher, tried to sound the alarm, but the president and public were hard to interest.
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May 1, 2024 · With assistance from a close friend of his father, U.S. Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, former Secretary of the Treasury under President Woodrow Wilson, White was hired in 1936.
4 days ago · In 1911, William Gibbs McAdoo, who operated a competing subway company called the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad, proposed building a line under Broadway between Hudson Terminal and Herald Square. He later proposed that the Broadway line be tied into the IRT's original subway line in Lower Manhattan.
3 days ago · The two leading candidates were William Gibbs McAdoo of California, former Secretary of the Treasury and son-in-law of former President Woodrow Wilson, and Governor Al Smith of New York. The balloting revealed a clear geographic and cultural split in the party, as McAdoo was supported mostly by rural , Protestant delegates from the South, West ...
