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...someone to whom he was close, someone he could rely on, now that Mr. Hughes is to depart. Intellectually he is probably the ablest man whom Mr. Coolidge has added to the Cabinet. Suave of face, almost good looking, the broad-headed type of statesman, like Borah or Underwood, he is able, active, arduous - especially in mind. He might have had a place in Harding's cabinet, but Harding, the man of good heart, was perhaps a little repelled by Warren's swift-mindedness. The departure of Mr. Hughes breaks up the "Big Three" of the Cabinet- Hughes...
...Underwood plan, which instructed the President to lease the plant to private operators...
...Voted 48 to 37 to. substitute the Underwood Bill (providing for leasing the Muscle Shoals plant to private operators) for the Norris Bill (providing for Government operation of the Muscle Shoals plant). The effect of this vote was to eliminate the Norris Bill from consideration. It did not constitute passage of the Underwood Bill...
Died. Mrs. Katharine McMahon Johnson, wife of Robert Underwood Johnson, author and onetime (Feb., 1920-July, 1921) U. S. Ambassador to Italy, mother of Owen Johnson, novelist; in Manhattan...
...INEVITABLE MILLIONAIRES-E. Phililps Oppenheim -Little, Brown ($2.00). Life for Stephen and George Henry Underwood was a prolonged struggle against the adversity of success. To these meek brothers their father had left a vast fortune with the instruction that they should "disseminate among their fellow creatures a considerable portion of their income," adding that the art of spending was as difficult as the art of saving. They tried to lose by backing a musical comedy, an open-air theatre, a golf club. Always, miserably, they profited. Mr. Oppenheim-King Spider, spinner of a thousand diabolical detective tales -here chuckles with...