Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary C. Bascom Slemp is not campaign manager. But he is a capable man to undertake the business of negotiation and maneuvering for position. There was a report of his activities in Alabama, where the friends of Senator Underwood have arranged a regulation that all candidates in that state's Presidential primaries must be state residents. Mr. Slemp was said to have arranged that Aubrey Thomas, formerly a Congressman from Ohio but now a resident of Alabama, will run in the primaries and deliver his delegates to Coolidge at the Convention...
William G. McAdoo. The McAdoo boom is more widespread (with the possible exception of Mr. Coolidge's) and more open than that of any other candidate. He is in the contest in nearly every state. Alabama and New York appear to be the only outstanding exceptions. Alabama is rather clearly the property of its favorite son, Senator Underwood, who is McAdoo's chief opponent. New York is also devoted to a favorite son, Governor Smith. Making a fight against a favorite son in his own state is not often good politics. Besides frequently being a waste of effort and money...
Oscar W. Underwood. The Senaator from Alabama is openly afield, but his organization is not yet nationally active. There is some doubt whether he can carry even the entire South against McAdoo. Texas, for example, is reported in favor of the latter...
...clock when the dance will be well under way, the Tuskegee singers of Tuskegee Institute. Alabama, will give the specialty number of the evening in the farm of two 15 minute singing program. On the program will be "Every body Talking About Heaven, Ain't Going There." "Who Swallowed Jonah", "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia...
...Tuskegee Singers, a colored quintet from Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute of Tuskegee. Alabama will sing a group of plantation melodies and negro folk songs between 11 o'clock and midnight at the Yale-Harvard dance in the Union next Friday evening. These colored singers are making a tour of the United States and are singing at various colleges. The college from which they come was founded by Booker T. Washington...