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Married. Helen Hall, fortyish, director of Manhattan's Henry Street Settlement, president of the National Federation of Settlements; and Paul Underwood Kellogg, 55, editor of The Survey and The Survey Graphic; in Jersey City...
...onetime (1923-27) Governor of Alabama; of brain hemorrhage; in Tuscaloosa. He won national notice by the thunderous booming of his voice, when, as Alabama's delegate to the 1924 National Democratic Convention, he led off 103 consecutive ballots with the cry: "Alabama casts 24 votes for Oscar W. Underwood...
...years ago political pundits seriously doubted whether the Democratic Party could ever be revived. The Madison Square Garden convention ("Twenty-four votes for Underwood") was only a prelude to the disaster that overtook Nominee John William Davis in the 1924 election. The Party's very makeup seemed to preclude the possibility of a comeback. In the South it was the party of the established order. In the North and West it was the party of a few political idealists and of strong but disreputable city machines built around the Irish Catholic and foreign-born slum vote. In the South...
...Last week President Roosevelt appointed a man with a big name to a small job. The man: Oscar Wilder Underwood Jr., son of Alabama's late great Senator. The job: the Mexican General Claims Commission. This agency was created to settle damages incurred by U. S. citizens during Mexico's 1910-20 period of revolutions. Graduated from the University of Virginia, Oscar Underwood Jr. was in Paris as a law clerk for a U. S. firm when war broke out in 1914. Back home in 1916, he served on the Mexican border with his Alabama militia regiment, then...
...Congress Dr. Calver's tiny force earned its salt. Most dramatic incident occurred when Representative Edward Everett Eslick dropped dead while addressing the House (TIME, June 27, 1932). Dr. Calver worked vainly to restore him. More successful was he when Representatives James William Collier of Mississippi, Mell G. Underwood of Ohio and William I. Sirovich of New York were taken ill at the Capitol...