William G. McAdoo, onetime Secretary of the Treasury (1913-18), Director General of Railways (1917-19), candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination (1924), having attended the Kentucky Derby (TIME, May 25, SPORT), went on to Washington, called on his step-mother-in-law, met his friends and political advisers, went on to Manhattan for similar conferences. "Grooming himself for 1928? Patching party fences? Planning to do away with the Democratic Convention's two thirds vote for nomination?" conjectured correspondents. W. W. Brandon, Governor of Alabama, the stentorian voice who last June called more than 100 times "Twenty foah for...
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