Word: whats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What are three things now most vividly associated in the public mind with the Commonwealth of Kentucky?
"Softest Job." When a congressman from Iowa, Mr. Good frequently heard people describe the position of Secretary of War as "the softest job in the Cabinet." After six months' service, he wonders what these people meant. No small assignment was it for him to memorize just the list of things...
Whenever in the last five years the Navy was up in Congress for debate and action, a big thick-shouldered man in a tweed suit, a red necktie and yellow shoes, could generally be found striding up and clown the Capitol's corridors, buttonholing Congressmen and Senators, passionately urging them...
Later that year Congress was plowed with demands for an investigation of the Navy. Such an inquiry, insisted Big-Navy men, would reveal the weak condition of the fleet, would hasten reforms?and new ships. Lobbyist Shearer was in the thick of that agitation. He began issuing what were supposed...
#182; "It would be folly to deny that the Wets' have made considerable gain in the past few years. . . . The defeat of Governor Smith did nothing to allay the sentiment against Prohibition. Instead it produced what might be called an emotional hangover. . . . The candidacy of Governor Smith was beneficial...