Word: vfw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...junior Senator from Kentucky, arrived late, after a chartered flight across the state and a hard drive up the mountainside. The day before, after a busy week in Washington, John Sherman Cooper had flown to Owensboro on the Ohio River for a busier day at the state VFW encampment. That night Republican Cooper and the Democrat who is running against him, grizzled old Alben Barkley, had spoken at a sweltering, shirtsleeve banquet (the 106-degree temperature, said a native, was not as hot as hell; it was as hot as hackydam -four miles below...
...sooner was the VFW action publicized than it was viciously attacked, as so blatant a denial of individual freedom should be. First the ADA denounced it, in advertisements in local newspapers. Soon, officials and groups who would not ordinarily back any ADA policy were denouncing the Norwalk VFW. Now the plan has been dropped entirely...
...questions petered out and Batal sat down, apologizing for taking so long. After representatives of the VFW and the American Legion had put themselves on record for "ANY bill to outlaw Communism," Representative Charles Iannello strode to the platform...