Word: underwoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next spring, busts of Winners Penn, Newcomb & Cleveland will be placed in the care of the Hall of Fame's 82-year-old director, Robert Underwood Johnson, poet and onetime (1920-21) Ambassador to Italy, whose white whiskers compare in bushiness with those of such inmates as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Samuel F. B. Morse and new Simon Newcomb...
...school, never went to college, though in 1906 he was graduated with honors by the University of Alabama's law school. He spent brief periods as a police judge in Birmingham, as a county prosecutor, as a captain of the 81st Field Artillery. In 1926 the late Oscar W. Underwood, disgusted with Alabama politics, announced his retirement from the Senate. Unknown Hugo Black was the dark horse in a five-man primary for the Underwood seat. Without any prominent support, he put on a wrinkled suit, climbed into a Model-T Ford, stumped the State, sleeping with any farmer...
...Britain's Civil War to that of the U. S., and swung to theatrical fame on the clapper of a cardboard bell, Joseph Boggs Beale had produced a lively drawing of Bessie in the belfry, her wild hair and her reticule swinging free, silencing the signal for Basil Underwood's death...
...President did not need to cudgel his memory to recall the sort of leadership of which Senator Robinson is capable. For twelve years, since he succeeded Alabama's late Oscar W. Underwood, "Joe" Robinson has been the boss of the Senate Democracy. Since 1933 he has been in command of a Democratic majority. Of experience he has all that a man requires. His best work in the last six months...
...Underwood Tariff of 1913 lace duties were cut to 60%, and the whole industry nearly went bankrupt. However, it was saved by the War, which shut off imports from Europe, and in the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act of 1922 the duty was boosted to the present rate-90%, highest ad valorem duty...