Chapter Thirteen
The Damnedest Job in the World
ON JUNE 8, 1921, President Warren G. Harding sent his nominations for the United States Shipping Board to Congress. Six of the seven names stirred no debate. But the seventh—Albert D. Lasker, the proposed chairman of the board—drew partisan jeers from the Democrats. In the House, Representative Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee rose to speak against Lasker:
I understand that he is the author of the phrase, “Don’t wiggle and wobble,” and possibly on account of that great service which he rendered to the ...
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