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...Democrats. The Democratic primary in Georgia was a contest between the two great champions, Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama and William G. McAdoo, now of California...
...Underwood activity was undertaken mostly during the last five weeks of the campaign after the oil disclosures which, it was felt, had hurt McAdoo. The Senator himself made a speech some months ago before the Georgia legislature, and Senator Heflin, his colleague from Alabama, went there at the end of the campaign to make a plea in his behalf...
...father is the dignified Robert Underwood Johnson, onetime editor of the Century, more lately U. S. Ambassador to Italy, recipient of many honors from many countries and recently author of a volume of chatty reminiscences, Remembered Yesterdays...
...Those in favor included 34 Republi-cans and 25 Democrats. Those opposed were chiefly the radical group- Brookhart, Frazier, La Follette and Norris, Republicans; Ashurst, Dill, Sheppard, Stanley, Walsh (Mont.), Wheeler and Adams, Democrats; Johnson (Minn.) and Shipstead, Farmer-Laborites. The so-called Presidential candidates of the Senate-Underwood, Ralston and Hiram Johnson-were none of them present and voting. Roberts was subsequently confirmed with less opposition...
...there called at the White House: 1) Senator Magnus Johnson of Minnesota, to discuss farm matters; 2) Robert Underwood Johnson, former Ambassador to Italy, on a personal matter; 3) Dr. I. Fred Johnson, prominent member of the Lee Highway Association, with his associates; 4) James Weldon Johnson, Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, with a petition for the release of 54 Negroes of the 24th Infantry in Leavenworth Penitentiary for the Houston Riot of 1917; 5) Henry Lincoln Johnson, Republican National Committeeman from Georgia. Even the President was reported to have found this a case...