Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama intends to ride that wave to the presidency...
...from one locality,--New England. And although Mr. Underwood would not say that Mr. Coolidge's presidential chances were any poorer because he was a Republican and from Massachusetts, he did not hesitate to infer that his own chances were considerably improved because he was a Democrat and from Alabama...
Underwood. Quite different from the submarine jockeying for position that goes on among his Republican opponents and Democratic rivals, Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama is out in the open with his candidacy. He toured Texas, the supposed stronghold of William G. Mc-Adbo, and at Nocona made this speech...
...would vote Dry-except for New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. That "Governor Pinchot [page 5] has endeared himself to the hardware trade with his talk of padlocks [for saloon doors]. I predict there will be a boom in that commodity in the Keystone State." Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama is the only Democratic candidate whose boom for the Presidential nomination is openly and actively under way. His enterprising political manager issued an "Underwood map" of the U. S., in which ten Southern states are marked "The Great White House Desert." These states (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama...
...that Mr. Ford ... is not himself possessed of the full facts of the situation." He then explained: 1) that the Gorgas plant cost less than $5,000,000 of the hundred millions expended at Muscle Shoals; 2) that under the contract made by the Wilson Administration with the Alabama Power Co. the Government had the choice of selling the Gorgas plant for $3,500,000 or junking it, which would have yielded about $1,000,000. He continued: " I have never opposed Mr. Ford's securing the use of this waterpower or any other equipment we have, provided...