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1. www.smithsonianmag.com › history › why-the-1924Why the 1924 Democratic National Convention Was the Longest ...

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   Jun 24, 2024 · William G. McAdoo served as a lawyer in Tennessee, a tunnel-building businessman in New York City and secretary of the Treasury in Woodrow Wilson’s cabinet. He quietly...

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3. www.nytimes.com › 2024/07/05 › usDivided and Undecided, 2024’s America Rhymes With 1924’s

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   3 days ago · One was William Gibbs McAdoo Jr., a tall, well-educated Protestant lawyer from the South. Stage-ready handsome and as stiff as his starched-neck collar, McAdoo was a reform-minded progressive...

4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › 1924_Democratic_National1924 Democratic National Convention - Wikipedia

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   3 days ago · 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.

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6. thedailyjaws.com › blog › the-jersey-shore-sharkThe Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 — The Daily Jaws

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   Jul 1, 2024 · Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo suggested mobilizing the Coast Guard to patrol the Jersey Shore and protect sunbathers. Shark hunts ensued along the coasts of New Jersey and New York, with armed shark hunters in motorboats and others lining the beaches in a concerted effort to exterminate the sharks.

7. untappedcities.com › 2013/05/23 › the-new-york-thatThe New York that Never Was: Gaudi's Hotel Attracion

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   Jun 28, 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 Railroad...

8. newrepublic.com › article › 183009The Craziest Convention in American History | The New Republic

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   Jun 24, 2024 · The winter-book favorite was former Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo, a California transplant who was the late Woodrow Wilson’s son-in-law. The straitlaced McAdoo was an unstinting...

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   Who was William Gibbs McAdoo?

   • Library of Congress One was William Gibbs McAdoo Jr., a tall, well-educated Protestant lawyer from the South. Stage-ready handsome and as stiff as his starched-neck collar, McAdoo was a reform-minded progressive who disdained political machines like New York’s Tammany Hall and supported the prohibition against the manufacture and sale of alcohol.

   Divided and Undecided, 2024’s America Rhymes With 1924’s

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   Why did William Gibbs McAdoo reject prohibition?

   • McAdoo, though, opposed such specificity and declined to repudiate the Klan, for fear, perhaps, of alienating its admiring delegates and voters. William Gibbs McAdoo Jr. supported Prohibition and declined to denounce the Klan.

   Divided and Undecided, 2024’s America Rhymes With 1924’s

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   What happened to McAdoo & Smith?

   • The names of dark horses and favorite sons kept popping up, while the contest between the main contenders, McAdoo and Smith — between the rural Klan-adjacent “drys” and the urban Klan-averse “wets” — remained deadlocked. Some delegates up and left the city, depleted of money or patience or both.

   Divided and Undecided, 2024’s America Rhymes With 1924’s

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   How much did McAdoo win vs Smith?

   • In the first round, McAdoo won nearly 40 percent of the vote, well more than Smith’s 22 percent but far from the two-thirds needed to secure the nomination. And so it went, ballot after ballot, through what remained of June and into July, past the scheduled closing indicated in the convention’s official program.

   Divided and Undecided, 2024’s America Rhymes With 1924’s

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10. newrepublic.com › article › 183053The Craziest Convention in American History: Part Two

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    Jun 25, 2024 · For 103 ballots, lasting more than two weeks, the delegates wrangled over a nomination pitting straitlaced former Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo against New York Governor Al Smith,...