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...solve this knotty problem Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama began work on a new bill. If he was to succeed he must have the support of the Administration. He called on the President and, by inference, he got a substantial endorsement of his plans. That the Administration was so favorably im-pressed was in itself atribute to the Alabama Senator. His tact, h!s pleasant personality, his ability long ago won him the respect of his Republican opponents. His 20 years of service in the House, culminating in his leadership in that body, his nine years in the Senate...
That same Congress was passing; and the presidential timber was beginning to put forth its springtime tendrils. Senator Oscar W. Underwood sailed for Europe, saying that he would consider his candidacy when he returned. Hopeful Senator Hiram W. Johnson went overseas?looking perhaps for ammunition to fire at President Harding's foreign policy. The name of Henry Ford was on the tip of many a tongue. William G. McAdoo was paving his path to the Democratic Convention. President Harding, bent on a deserved rest, turned south to Florida; and Senator William E. Borah, going home to Idaho, stopped at Akron...
...President seemed the most favored contender for the Republican nomination?that is, if he would display some individual initiative, something that would make him a figure in his own right, not a mere shade of Mr. Harding. Other candidates likewise were getting their plans under way. Senator Underwood was at work; Senator Hiram Johnson and Mr. McAdoo were
Then came Hallowe'en with pumpkins and practical jokes; and after Hallowe'en, election day. Warren G. Harding and Hiram W. Johnson, William G. McAdoo, Oscar Underwood, Henry Ford, who began the contest, had departed the field. The ship subsidy, the World Court, the bonus, tax reduction?great issues earlier in the fight?were lost or had dwindled into insignificance for the most part...
...considered a barometer of the national election in November. This year, however, there was friction in the Republican ranks over the Governorship nomination. Mr. Brewster, supported by the Ku Klux Klan, won the primary after a recount. The Democrats thereupon made the Klan the issue. They called in Senator Underwood as a speaker. The Republicans called in General Dawes, Senators Watson and Willis, Speaker Gillette. They were scared. The Republican press went so far as to say in advance that Maine was no barometer this year because of the Klan issue...