Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fully aware of his role as Dry Hope- the man President Hoover expects to pull Prohibition out of its manifold troubles- Mr. Youngquist stated that he had never taken a drink himself. He added: "I am a dry politically and personally, but I am not a fanatic on the subject...
...Mr. President...
...RESOLVED: That the action of the Senator from Connecticut in placing Mr. Charles L. Eyanson upon the official rolls of the Senate at the time and in the manner set forth ... is contrary to good morals and senatorial ethics and tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute and such conduct is hereby condemned...
Fussbudgety Senator Fess of Ohio was on his feet. Senator Bingham's eyes traveled trustingly to him. Said Senator Fess: "Mr, President, I ask the Senator [Norris] if he will not allow the resolution to go over." Senator Norris moved his head in the perfunctory assent of one long used to the Senate's delays. Senator Fess sat down. Senator Bingham looked at the back of Senator Norris' head...
President Hoover had been interviewed on the matter by Representative Hamilton Fish of New York, a Congressman whose chief claims to fame are World War soldiering and, before that, footballing at Harvard. Mr. Fish had concluded, as has many another citizen, that the dispute between the academies which has for two years prevented citizens from seeing the Army and Navy play football together was not only silly but unbecoming in both of the country's services...