Word: presidental
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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!"
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...
"The President was visited by a number of Senators (who) presented to him the grave situation that has arisen by delays in tariff legislation. . . . Some of the Senators considered progress hopeless as it appeared to them that the coalition intended to delay or defeat legislation. . . . "The President said . . . that campaign...
"The President has declined to interfere or express any opinion on the details of rates . . . but he pointed out that the wide differences of opinion and the length of the discussions in the Senate were themselves ample demonstration of the desirability of a real flexible clause in order that injustice...