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trality’ as to the Salem Church Dam.
“Now, gentlemen, ‘reaffirm’ means to ‘sayagain,’ and I never heard of the first statement. That ‘reaffirm’ is very serious to me. That means there was a statement before about the Board’s neutrality, and that is what has turned on the steam of Charlie McCarthy the Second.”
(Again, for younger readers, Charlie McCarthy was a ventriloquist’s dummy on a radio program — if you can imagine that implausible combination.)
ADDED GENERAL Noce: “I deny I was misrepresenting anybody. I deny that his statement is correct ., .And no one in this room has ever heard me expound upon the great Corps of Engineers. Carter’s statement is a compounded lie .. .McCarthy just gets his saber out and spouts venom. . .He is not prolonging this fight with facts and sound arguments.
“I ask the Board to do something today and support me on my past acts up to March 2. I got the message then, but you cannot stop me from speaking for myself. But past actions that I took were on my own but with the cognizances of this Board. If you change the minutes to say the Board ‘announces’ rather than ‘reaffirms,’
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