Word: borah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agreed with my views, they wouldn't have voted for me." All explainers ignored the fact that when a State once acquires a solid admiration for the gnarled-hickory character of an elder statesman it often continues to vote for him regardless of issues -as Idaho did for Borah, as Virginia has done for Glass...
McCormick, Hamilton Fish and the lamented Borah on one hand and the national realistic views of leaders like Colonel Knox and Wendell Willkie on the other hand...
...that were made in the past cannot be rectified. We can only look back on Versailles, the Harding Administration, Austria, Munich, and above all Spain. We now know that Hoare, Leval, Chamberlain, and the Vatican were wrong, terribly wrong. We can only say that the fondest hopes of Senator Borah are now fulfilled; America is isolated...
...prime cause of war more firmly held. Lord Grey's statement in 1914--"the enormous growth of armaments in Europe, the sense of insecurity and fear caused by there, it was these that made war inevitable"--was quoted again and again by the successful opponents of British rearmament. Senator Borah expressed the equivalent American opinion, in voting against the naval appropriations bill of 1928 when he said, "One nation putting out a program, another putting out a program to meet the program, and soon there...
...greatest paradox of all the leaders. Thought of as an utter New Yorker, the duck-bottomed Little Flower spent his years from three to 20 in South Dakota, Arizona, Florida, is as Western as Nebraska's Norris, Wisconsin's La Follettes, Idaho's Borah. He talks the most direct American language of any leader, speaks Italian, German, Croatian, Yiddish, French, Spanish. Short, rubbery, unmilitary, he is a U. S. Army Air Corps major and a veteran who has actually seen fighting. Denounced all his political life as a radical, his businesslike administration has won the favor...