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...would have his approval); John V. Mahan, National Commander, and a delegation of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War to ask the President to attend their convention in Atlanta next June; Governors Brewster of Maine, Hardy of Florida, Groesbeck of Michigan, "Twenty-four-votes-for-Underwood" Brandon of Alabama, to lunch and to ask the President to attend the next conference of Governors to be held either at Mackinac Island (Michigan), or at Cheyenne; Socialist Congressman Victor Louis Berger of Wisconsin to ask the President to restore rights of citizenship to Eugene V. Debs (see POLITICAL NOTES); Senators...
...Italian debt settlement. This will meet opposition in the Senate as bitter and perhaps more forceful than it met in the House. Attempts have been made to line up the Democrats against it, but until recently these attempts have not succeeded. A number of prominent Democrats, notably Messrs. Underwood, Glass and Bruce, have stood out against making a fight on this issue. The Administration has stood solidly behind the settlement, contending not only that it is the best that can be got, but the only way of insuring any money at all from Italy. A combination of Democrats and Republican...
...married a singer, "Mme. Cobina" (Miss Esther Cobb), in 1912, but shortly afterwards they were divorced and he married Miss Cecile Denis de Lagarde, who died in 1918. In 1921 he married Miss Catharine Sayre Burton, who died in 1923. He is the son of Robert Underwood Johnson, one-time (Feb., 1920, to July, 1921) U. S. Ambassador to Italy...
Meanwhile journalistic conjecture cast about for the most likely representatives at the conferences. The consensus of opinion for the preliminary conference seemed to be Hugh Gibson, U. S. Minister to Switzerland; for the disarmament conference (if attended): Elihu Root, Charles E. Hughes, Oscar W. Underwood, Frank B. Kellogg, William E. Borah, Herbert C. Hoover...
Three days later Mr. and Mrs. Dawes arrived smiling at the Capital. While Mrs. Dawes went off to No. 1620 Belmont Rd. to open the house which they have taken for the season, the Vice President went to his office and received callers, among them Senator Underwood, who has proposed such an amendment to the Senate as Mr. Dawes desires. Observers are fairly well agreed that the Dawes proposals will not be adopted, although Mr. Dawes seems to have some hope that they may be brought to a vote-just for the sake of getting Senators on record. But during...