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...sold 36,000 copies. The Mirrors of 1932, put out a few days earlier by Brewer. Warren & Putnam (TIME. July 20), had accounted for less than half as many sales. Merry-Go-Round was even making legitimate news squibs: President Hoover was trying to identify its authors; Senator Borah headed the Library of Congress list of those waiting for a copy...
...summons. Massachusetts' Representative Treadway had to leave an Amherst alumni banquet because his President wanted him quickly in Washington. Acting Secretary of the Treasury Mills kept popping in and out of the President's office every few minutes. President Hoover talked over long-distance telephone with Senator Borah in Idaho, Senator Robinson in Arkansas, Representative Hawley in Oregon. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, junketing in Canada, received a call from the White House in a Toronto drug store. Other Senators and Representatives, Republican and Democratic, trooped into the White House to confer with the President, trooped out again nodding...
Germany has again protested against the burden that the reparation payments place upon her people and now declares that the limit of privation has been reached. Senator Borah, chairman of the committee on foreign affairs, took immediate notice of this plea. He reiterated the old but forceful objections to the reparations as placing a burden on Germany without helping the recipients of the payments and as a possible cause of the seriousness and extensiveness of the depression. With a touch of demagoguery but with none the less soundness he pleaded for the reduction of the debts that "ground down into...
...twelve years ago Senator Borah would have been accused of being in the pay of the German government or at least of being disgracefully pro-German. But after the steadying influence of a decade of prosperity and peace the attitude will be quite different. People have come to realize that in imposing the tremendous debt on Germany they were not wreaking vengeance on some barbarous huns who had strung babies up by the toes and wantonly destroyed everything in their path. With the return to sanity they have found that the debt was merely an imposition on a people like...
Also last week a letter-writer to the New York Sun told this story: "President Coolidge was taking one of his morning walks with a friend. . . . 'There's Borah on his horse,' remarked the President's companion. 'Is he headed in the same direction as the horse?' asked President Coolidge...