Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Glass recalled that Prohibition had not been named by name in either the Hoover or the Wickersham speeches inaugurating the Commission's work, and added: "These omissions could not have been merely coincident. Obviously they must have been agreed on."
Continued the Senator: "President Hoover in his speech to the Associated Press minimized, if not actually extinguished, the importance of the major subject of Prohibition by declaring it was a mere segment of the investigation. . . . I am no fanatical Prohibitionist. I am not an unreasoning vituperative zealot. I have never...
Senator Glass ridiculed the idea of passing the Jones Resolution for another joint Commission on Prohibition, declaring: "There is not a fact to be ascertained, not one, not now immediately available to the President and the department heads affected. It is an attempt by the executive . . . to shift to the...
Nowhere could Senator Glass find that President Hoover was pledged never to try to alter the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act: "In the campaign the most he ever said was that he did 'not favor the repeal of the 18th Amendment' but he nowhere has said that he might...
*A reference to Bishop James Cannon Jr. of Virginia, the Senator's arch political foe.