Word: borah
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...Church is trying to forge the Foreign Relations Committee, which actually holds little legislative power, into a unit with the kind of authority it once held under such past chairmen as Idaho's William E. Borah (Church's boyhood hero), Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and Arkansas' William Fulbright. Under its most recent chairman, Alabama's easygoing John Sparkman, the committee "had begun to fractionate," says Church, in typically grand language. "The centrifugal power was pulling the committee into subcommittees that were taking over...
...hold after age 12) has grown into a central Mormon issue in Cambridge and the East. The doctrine causes few problems in the lily-white far west; Larry Dewey say the only black he had talked to before he came to Harvard was a halfback for nearby Borah High. But mention of the ban brings stories of blacks who broke off friendships because of the prohibition, although this is not always true: Carlyn Christensen '74 roomed with a black woman sophomore year...
...horses at an exclusive club. She remembers that Joan Crawford's horse Red Satin was part of the stable. Later, in Washington, the Davis family lived in high society, so she tells it, entertaining the Cordell Hulls (he was Secretary of State under F.D.R.) and Idaho Senator William Borah ("Mother was a terrific Republican"). Dita came out at a debutante ball at Washington's Carlton hotel in 1939. "It was like a wedding without the agony of being married," she sighs...
...most prominent families, they were raised in colonnaded homes safely hidden from public view by delicate hedgewoods and stately live oaks. They graduated together in the top half of their law school class at Tulane; Baumbach then won a Fulbright scholarship to study international law in South America, while Borah entered the master's program in international trade at the London School of Economics. They appeared destined for splendid careers in international trade...
...expressway to be the result of shoddy planning. Their findings did not endear them to the Chamber of Commerce-nor, they were astonished to find, to many of their lifelong friends. They were quietly but firmly pushed out of what they refer to as the "velvet rut." Says Borah: 'If you are born in the right family and keep your mouth shut, you can just ride it on through." But they persevered, haranguing at public meetings, until they finally attracted national attention (the New Orleans papers had conspicuously ignored them). Finally, almost three years later, the young attorneys...