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Virginia's Glass flayed Democratic Leader Robinson of Arkansas, who accepted the Compromise, for his "abject surrender" on the principle of free Federal aid. Idaho's Borah in one last dramatic revolt against the Compromise, exclaimed...
...somewhat different manner the bigger and more serious legislative fight over Drought Relief was compromised last week by Senator Caraway's colleague. Senator Robinson of Arkansas. The day after Senator's Borah's thunderous speech last fortnight for food relief, President Hoover intimated that he might favor some sort of public aid if private charity failed (see p. 11). Shuttling back and forth for 48 hours between the White House and the Capitol went portly Senator Watson of Indiana, the Republican leader, trying to find a means of silencing Senator Borah, whom he fears, by pleasing Senator...
...only Senators disgruntled with the Watson compromise were the Republican Insurgents. They denounced it as a "cheap evasion" of the Relief principle which Senator Borah had so thunderously proclaimed. They argued that farmers without security would not benefit at all. They predicted that Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, archfoe of the "food-dole," would never sanction the use of any of this fund for food for hungry...
Then up rose Senator Borah to thunder one of those speeches which stir men's hearts and make the Senate seem really a national forum instead of an old men's bickering society. He announced that if Leader Tilson of the House was going to make it a matter of principle, then he, Borah of the Senate, accepted the challenge...
...Knickerbocker of the New York Evening Post was visited in Berlin by a bald Russian with a trowel beard- Vladimir Orloff, onetime Councillor of State in the Imperial Russian Government. From him Reporter Knickerbocker obtained a number of letters purporting to show that U. S. Senators William Edgar Borah and George William Norris had accepted $100,000 bribes from Soviet agents (TIME, July 22, 1929). After a trial somewhat embarrassing internationally, in which Reporter Knickerbocker was star witness for the prosecution, M. Orloff was convicted of forgery, sentenced to jail. Rather surprisingly, Defense Attorney Walter Jaffe said of Witness Knickerbocker...