UNDERWOOD, OSCAR WILDER

1862–1929, American political leader, U.S. Senator from Alabama (1915–27), b. Louisville, Ky. A lawyer in Birmingham, Ala., he became important in Democratic party politics. In the U.S. House of Representatives (1895–96, 1897–1915) he introduced the Underwood Tariff Act of 1913. The act drastically reduced tariff schedules and transferred many articles to the free list but was only in force briefly because of the outbreak (1914) of World War I. In the Senate (1915–27) he was a leading exponent of President Wilson's foreign policy. Underwood was a prominent contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1912 and 1924. He wrote Drifting Sands of Party Politics (1928).

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Sons of the Wild Jackass
Book by Ray Tucker, Frederick R. Barkley, R. G. List, Robert S. Maxwell; University of Washington Press, 1970
Subjects: Statesmen--United States, United States--Congress--Senate--Biography
...his own fierce spirit of partisanship. Excessive patriotism, too, held him in sway. Such a Bourbon as the late Oscar Underwood assailed his demands for newspaper censorship, and the "irreconcilables" gave him no quarter. Upon one occasion...
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Encyclopedia of Tariffs and Trade in U.S. History - Vol. 3
Book by Cynthia Clark Northrup, Elaine C. Prange Turney; Greenwood Press, 2003
Subjects: Free Trade--United States--History--Encyclopedias, Protectionism--United States--History--Encyclopedias, Tariff--United States--History--Encyclopedias, Taxation--United States--History--Encyclopedias, United States--Commercial Policy--History--Encyclopedias, United States--History--Encyclopedias
...Cordell; Payne-Aldrich Tariff (Tariff of 1909); Protectionism; Sugar; Taft, William Howard; Underwood, Oscar Wilder; Underwood-Simmons Tariff (Tariff of 1913); Wilson, Thomas Woodrow; Wool and woolens. Vol. II : Inaugural...
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Woodrow Wilson and the People
Book by H. C. F. Bell; Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1945
Subjects: Wilson, Woodrow--1856-1924
...367 Twain, Mark Samuel L. Clemens , 18 Tyrrell, Sir William, 154 , 165 U-boat, see Submarine warfare Underwood, Oscar Wilder, his tariff act, 122 , 186 ; 60 - 61 , 73 , 94 , 123 -24, 155 Union College, 197 United Mine Workers, 354...
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Bryan
Book by M. R. Werner; Harcourt, Brace, 1929
Subjects: Bryan, William Jennings--1860-1925, Statesmen--United States--Biography
...Tribune , New York, 76 , 78 , 88 , 108 , 116 Tumulty, Joseph Patrick, 166 ; quoted, 176 , 205 , 226 , 231 Underwood, Oscar Wilder, 168 , 174 , 196 Union College of Law, 17
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Asian Americans and Congress: A Documentary History
Book by Hyung-Chan Kim; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Asian Americans--Legal Status, Laws, Etc--History, Asians--Legal Status, Laws, Etc--United States--History, Emigration And Immigration Law--United States--History, United States--Congress
...William H., 87 , 91 Truman, Harry S., 283 , 349 Trumbull, Lyman, 18 , 20 Tydings, Millard E., 283 Underwood, Oscar Wilder, 158 Van Kirk, Walter W., 350 Vandenberg, Arthur H., 287 , 290 Wade, Benjamin Franklin, 23 Walsh, Richard...
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"Big Chief Izzy Horowitz": Theatricality and Jewish Identity in the Wild West
Journal article by Andrea Most; American Jewish History, Vol. 87, 1999
Subjects: American Jews, Girl Crazy (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Jewish identity, Jews, American--Identity, Musical theater--Social aspects, Western States--Portrayals, Whoopee (Play)--Criticism and interpretation
...Theatricality and Jewish Identity in the Wild West. by ANDREA MOST In the American musical...late 1920s and early 1930s musicals, the Wild West in particular highlighted the importance...social hierarchies.(5) The newcomer in a Wild West town was like an immigrant--he...
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Phi Alpha Theta Initiates
Journal article; The Historian, Vol. 72, 2010
Subjects: Honor societies--Membership
...Doerr, Jason Doty, Charles Eggleston, Oscar Fabian, Vivian T. Gomez, Gilbert Gortarez...Miller, Christopher Marc Bettis Moreland, Oscar Munoz, Marissa Ostos, Danielle Suzanne...Pruett, Robert H. Welborn, Kelvin G. Wilder. Clemson University (Alpha Beta Sigma...


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TV Celebrates the Holidays; Movies, Specials, Music
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), December 7, 2009
...during the holidays. The Oscar-winning score by the...with the law after his wild ways go too far. But...ABC Family) - Gene Wilder is the candymaker who...famous song from its Oscar-nominated soundtrack...songwriter Bruce Springsteen; Oscar winner Robert De Niro...Also performing: Carrie Underwood, Shakira, Reba McEntire...


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encyclopedia articles on: Underwood Oscar Wilder  - 2 results

 
 
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Underwood, Oscar Wilder
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
UNDERWOOD, OSCAR WILDER 1862 1929, American political leader...96, 1897 1915) he introduced the Underwood Tariff Act of 1913. The act drastically...President Wilsons foreign policy. Underwood was a prominent contender for the...
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Wilson, Woodrow
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in his presidential campaign. During his administration the tariff was drastically decreased (1913; see Underwood, Oscar Wilder ); the Federal Reserve System was instituted (1913); the La Follette Seamens Act, regulating labor conditions...


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