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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...must be probed to the bone. It will be. But the Congress must apply the probe. Mr. Daniels has been tried and found wanting. After the fourth of next March he will be chiefly remembered in the Navy for his contribution to its slang of a new synonym for a cunning falsehood. For on every man-of-war and at every shore station today, officers and men know that to tell a "Daniels" is to tell a falsehood with such cunning as to stand a good chance of not being caught. Boston Transcript...