Word: oratore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sounding like a regular Dry, Congressman Fort declared that Prohibition was here to stay, that it was responsible in part for U. S. economic advancement, that the Press was grossly biased, that the Wets had no adequate substitute for liquor control. But like a thoroughgoing Wet he sounded when he...
Representative Franklin William Fort of New Jersey, banker, insurer, orator, managed Mr. Hoover's pre-convention Eastern campaign. As a reward he was made secretary of the Republican National Committee. Last week he complained of the press of other affairs, resigned. As always in the case of such leave...
He is the real leader of the farm bloc in the House. This bloc is not so insurgent as its Senate counterpart, which permits him and his followers to maintain their standing as regular party men. He has stopped counting the number of bills for farm aid he has offered...