Word info

McAdoo

Proper noun

Meaning

A surname from Irish.

A town in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States.

An unincorporated community in Dickens County, Texas, United States.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Father-in-law to the candidate, Wilson might have given McAdoo a welcome endorsement now that the League of Nations had receded as an issue. Source: Internet

He passed Davis, the almost consistent third choice of the convention, on the fifty-second ballot; but Taggart then discouraged the boom for the time being because the McAdoo and Smith phalanxes showed no signs of weakening. Source: Internet

But to reject Smith and nominate McAdoo would antagonize American Catholics, who constituted some 16 percent of the population and most of whom could normally be counted upon by the Democrats. Source: Internet

Commentaries and notes by Lloyd Motz and Dale McAdoo. Source: Internet

For his part, McAdoo would angrily quit the convention and leave the country once he lost: but the sixty-first inconclusive round - when the convention set a record for length of balloting - was no time to admit defeat. Source: Internet

Governor Charles Wayland Bryan The nomination, stripped of all honor, finally went to John W. Davis, a compromise candidate who won on the one hundred and third ballot after the withdrawal of Smith and McAdoo. Source: Internet

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