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...Brandon had been elected four years ago on a platform calling for rigid enforcement of the Prohibition laws, but that in office he had pardoned many liquor violators. Then too, as everyone knows, his was the voice that boomed untiringly before the 1924 Democratic National Convention in Manhattan: "Twenty-foah votes foah Un-da-wood...
...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 Un-da-wood !" appeared at a "Southern Exposition" held in Manhattan, bringing the result of a state-wide ballot on "Alabama's greatest living men and women"-to wit: Writer: Octavus Roy Cohen Statesman: Oscar W. Underwood Soldier: General Robert Lee Bullard Professorial Leader: Dr. George TI. Denny...
...leader of the Alabama delegation rose, with a triumphant modulation, with linked sweetness long-drawled out reiterated: "A-la-bam-ah?twenty-foah votes foah Un-da-wood...
...75th, 76th, 77th ballots were passed with almost no change. The Convention was in a coma. The only diversion was when the entire house joined with Governor Brandon in announcing Alabama's unalterable vote: "Twenty-foah, foah Un-da-wood...
Conversation overheard at Memorial : Waiter No. 1 - "Dis am a fine structyah, Sam?" Waiter No. 2 (critically) - "De exteryh is very fine, sah, but dere is one thing I have notussed about de interyur, - dey have only got foah of de windows painted...