Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dry Senator Thomas of Oklahoma: "Governor Smith, if elected President, could not have appointed anyone starting out to destroy Prohibition any more than the Hoover Commission chairman has done."
Dry Senator Caraway of Arkansas: "Prohibition suffered the worst blow by the Wickersham statement that it has ever received. ... I expect Wickersham to resign soon. . . . Personally I hope he resigns. . . . The usefulness of the Commission is destroyed if he remains at its head."
In Washington, Dry Senator Borah of Idaho remarked: "Mr. Wickersham has at last succeeded in making it clear that he regards the law as unenforceable."
Oliver Max Gardner, at 47, is North Carolina's youngest Governor. Cottonmill owner, lawyer, farmer, he plays a left-handed game of golf, is fondly called "Max" by most Tarheel voters. At North Carolina State College he was a famed football player. Twenty years in Democratic politics, grey-haired...
(2 of 3) a "gesture," replied that as a "gesture" he thought it would be "very weak." Kentucky's Senator Barkley (Democrat) pointed out that it was "no gesture" to reduce tariff on "something that does not matter while increasing it on things that do." Nevertheless, foreign countries must reduce...