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Diary of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels

 

February                  SATURDAY 9                      1918

Saw Swager Sherley1 about new building for Navy Department-

Delegation from Phila to ask to take over street cars to that Navy Yard workmen could get to work-

Navy night at Tabernacle. Billy Sunday2 preached to men of Navy

Source Note: D, DLC-MSS, Josephus Daniels Papers, Diaries, Reel 1.

Footnote 1: J. Swager Sherley, a Democratic Congressman from Kentucky who served on the House Appropriations Committee.

Footnote 2: A famous revivalist preacher.

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