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...when he proudly turned them down, revolted again and named Charles Gates Dawes, with whom afterwards they quarreled? Or that eleven-day wonder, the convention in the old Madison Square Garden where McAdoo fought Smith, and Smith fought McAdoo and Alabama 103 times cast 24 votes for Oscar W. Underwood, till John William Davis and Bryan the Lesser were boosted to the limelight? Or that second convention in Cleveland to which the Senator from Wisconsin, who in Jo Davidson's mass marble will soon adorn the Capitol's hall of fame, sent his ready-made platform and took...
Heflin, Klu Klux Klan, free silver, William Jennings Bryan, prohibition, woman suffrage, McNary-Haugen farm relief may all be classed as attempts at reform. They have shared in common: lofty purpose, great zeal, and not a little oratory. Senator Oscar W. Underwood was opposed to each and every one of them. He saw something dangerous in them all. He felt that their purposes were not worth their methods. He was a complete Jeffersonian, and a quiet one at that...
Educated at the University of Virginia. Member of the House of Representatives (1895-1915); author of the Underwood Tariff Bill; majority leader...
...might have been President, had he not been so hostile to William Jennings Bryan in 1912. Famed, but not so signifi cant as the Underwood boom of 1912, was Alabama's cry, "Twenty-four votes for Oscar W. Underwood," which was re peated 103 times at the Democratic convention...
...book,* in which he said: "Let us bear in mind that the best brains and the best energies of our people are given to production; politics is now, and always has been, of secondary interest to most of the people. And there the danger lies." Oscar W. Underwood was an exception to his own theory...