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...down in Arkansas just three days before the Democrats of the U. S. Senate met to pick his successor as their leader-highest gift in their power. It was the first time Democrats had gathered for such a purpose since Dec. 4, 1923, when the late great Oscar Wilder Underwood's resignation took effect. Joe Robinson had then been chosen unanimously...
...potent House Ways & Means Committee as janitor. At that time Chairman William McKinley, beaten in the 1890 elections, was packing up for Ohio. Mr. McKinley left his Bible for Harry. Years later Sereno Elisha Payne, chairman of the Committee during Taft's Administration, gave him his furniture. Oscar Underwood's legacy was a complete wardrobe including a big Stetson...
...House of Representatives; in Washington. Noted for his sonorous voice, Clerk Haltigan became famed during the 1924 Democratic Convention in New York. For the 17 days of the Smith-McAdoo deadlock he boomed out the roll call, beginning with Alabama's "24 votes for Underwood...
Died. John Thomas Underwood, 80, retired inventor and manufacturer of typewriters ; in Wianno, Cape Cod, Mass...
Sulloway-Brown (V) lost to Gilder-Kahn 6-3, 7-5; Goodwin-Grandin (V) defeated Reuter-Underwood 7-5, 6-3; Kelleher-Davenport (G) defeated Bolton-Gordon...