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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week South Carolina's Senator Coleman Livingston Blease made one of his customary speeches in the Senate against crime and immorality in the city of Washington. What provoked him was a report by the District of Columbia Grand Jury that the Capital was not the vice-ridden, lawless community it had been pictured. The bristly-haired Senator from South Carolina shouted that in Washington there is no Prohibition "to the wealthy man . . . to the embassies . . . to the cabinet . . . to Mr. Hoover if he does not want to have it . . . to a Senator . . . to a Congressman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Blease on Blasphemy | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

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