Word: alabamans
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Oscar W. Underwood. The activities of the Alabaman are confined mainly to the South. The strategy of this course is the necessity of a two- thirds vote to nominate in the Democratic Convention. The Underwood men calculate that McAdoo will fail in this and they want their candidate to have a nucleus of 100 or more delegates when the alignment breaks up in the Convention and the McAdoo forces begin to disperse to other candidates. They are appealing to the South much as McAdoo is appealing to the West, yet Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida are the only states whose...
Before Senator Oscar Underwood sailed for Egypt last week he wrote the following sentence in a letter to a fellow Alabaman: " When I return I shall give very careful and thorough consideration to the friendly suggestions that are being made in reference to the advisability of my entering the fight for the Presidential nomination of our party...