half-bushel-measure

Updated: August 24, 2026

For two hours she waited to see President Johnson, in an anteroom "among the huge half-bushel-measure spittoons and terrible filth ... where the smell of tobacco and whiskey was powerful." When she finally reached him, he immediately refused her request, explaining that he had a thousand such solicitations every day.

Alma Lutz - Susan B. Anthony: Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian