Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted a resolution by Alabama's Heflin calling for recommendations from the Federal Board for legislation to check stock speculation...
...revolt named Frank O. Lowden for Vice-President and, 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...
Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman" Pope, "obtained his annual quota of publicity and ridicule by pretending again that the flag flown on Navy ships during religious services is a Popish flag, and offering an amendment to prohibit any flag flying above the U. S. flag at any time. The vote against this Heffling...
Thus, irony in its most logical form. Alabama gave both Heflin and Underwood to the Senate. In cast of mind and in frame of opinion, the two men were a million miles apart...
...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...