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Colorado's Phipps
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(1929). He voted against the Jones (heavier Prohibition penalties) Law (1929), Farm Relief (1927, 1928), the Soldier Bonus (1924). His own campaign declaration about himself: "There is probably no greater friend of the World War veterans than Colorado's Senator Lawrence C. Phipps."
An ineffective debater, he rarely enters the Senate's rough & tumble talks. On the infrequent occasions when he is moved to make a speech, he works it out laboriously with his secretaries in advance, reads it from manuscript in a low sing-song voice like a child reciting a...
Outside the Senate, he leads an active if restricted, life in Washington's most exclusive society. In his imposing mansion, "Single Oak," onetime home of Josephus Daniels, Wilson's Secretary of the Navy, set back from Cathedral Avenue in large, meticulously landscaped grounds, he entertains often and well...