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With these words written to the publisher of The Birmingham News, Oscar W. Underwood announced the end of his service in the Congress...
...will end a cycle of 32 years. It began in 1895, when young Congressman Underwood went to Washington. In 1910, when the Democrats, following the fight over the Payne-Aldrich tariff, emerged triumphant in the congressional elections, Mr. Underwood, a seasoned legislator of 15 years' experience, emerged as the majority leader. There followed the Underwood tariff. There followed a bitter fight between Underwood and Bryan in which Underwood came out the victor. There followed a Democratic convention in 1912, when Woodrow Wilson was nominated for President and Oscar W. Underwood, had he not refused it, might have...
...broke out in Europe, and Underwood, having rounded out a score of years in the House, went over to the Senate. And shortly he found himself again majority leader for the Democrats. Then came the Democratic debacle of 1920, but it was not an Underwood debacle. He followed it by becoming one of the four* U. S. members of the Limitations of Armaments Conference. In 1922, he abandoned his place as Democratic leader. He also refused a place on the Supreme Court bench as successor to Justice...
...cycle will be at the end -20 years in the House and 12 in the Senate-the longest service in Congress of any present Democratic member. Then Oscar W. Underwood, a man of 65, expects to retire to his recently purchased estate in Virginia...
...distinguished electors whose privilege it is, every five years, to pass (with a three fifths vote) on candidates for the U. S. Hall of Famef (at New York University), Director Robert Underwood Johnson last week sent ballots. There were 27 names, in nomination, of whom the electors were to choose 12. The names...