Word: snares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These facts did not satisfy Senator Robinson. He tried to snare the Democratic chairman with insinuating questions. Democratic Senators Caraway and Walsh on the Committee stormily protested such crude and obvious political maneuvering. Spectators mocked with loud laughter. Senator Robinson asked Mr. Raskob if he did not take his Democratic chairmanship to help fight Prohibition. Cried Senator Walsh: "Don't answer that question! Don't answer it!" Senator Robinson tried to build up an "important point" by revealing the anti-Raskobism of North Carolina's Josephus Daniels, oldtime Democrat, onetime Secretary of the Navy. When Senator Robinson was forced...