Dan Okrent
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Podcast Appearances
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E7: Judgement Day
Hoover had no use for her any longer. She was kind of an irrelevancy. By the time Prohibition is very unpopular, she's got less of a constituency.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E7: Judgement Day
She campaigned very hard for Herbert Hoover against Al Smith.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E7: Judgement Day
There was a speech she gave in Ohio particularly. Though she doesn't specifically invoke Smith's Catholicism, there are hint, hint, wink, wink about it.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E7: Judgement Day
Don't threaten me with a good time, Mabel. That led to the Smith campaign really building an issue on the discrimination against him.