Word: foghorned
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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Referring to the No. 6 Man as "Mr. Foghorn Adams," Senator Harrison quoted his remarks on the greatness of President Hoover and replied, with privileged Senatorial rudeness, that the President is "as negative a quantity ... as any we have ever had." Upon Secretary Adams's praise of the Cabinet of which he is a member Senator Harrison commented: "He recommends himself pretty highly, don't you think?" After his Boston speech, and the Harrison reply, Secretary Adams went to Newport, awarded diplomas at the Navy's War College, delivered the graduation speech. It was the shortest...