Word: two
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus were illustrated on the Senate floor two predominant Dry attitudes toward Prohibition: the Dry who considers it his duty to tell all he sees; the Dry whose social sensibility keeps him silent. Senator Brookhart was variously hailed throughout the land as one who (although two years late) had done a civic service, or as one who had accepted hospitality and then flouted its rules. Senator Smoot, similarly, was viewed either as a dry-voting hypocrite who had kept mum, or as a gentleman who had not gone out of his way to impose his public character on a private...
They asked him why the Federal Farm Board had been so slow in extending to farmers the $500,000,000 credit at its disposal. Chairman Legge replied: "It took Congress eight years to pass farm legislation. The Board should be given a little more than two months to accomplish what is expected...
...made a splendid trip to Washington. He was one of New Mexico's first two Senators...
...Two years later, Albert Bacon Fall made a sad trip, back to Three Rivers, N. Mex., resigned, suspect, disgraced. People were saying he had accepted presents from oil men in return for giving them rich leases and contracts on Government reserves...
While criminal and civil actions were being prepared, Fall took a trip abroad with Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair (who paid his expenses). If they had stayed abroad, as two other characters in the Oil Scandals did, Fall would have been spared further sad trips between the Southwest and Washington to his trials...