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Wit and Whimsy About Brownlow in Taft Era
Washington humor recounts Representative Walter Brownlow joking with President Taft about patronage and his sight. A second tale recalls Brownlow failing to reach Main Six on a White House phone, prompting a quip from an operator and a punchline about a government hospital for the insane.
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