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...face of deadlock, Senator Borah proposed a compromise of $15,000,000 to be used solely for Drought sufferers. But this found little favor with the Democrats. And Republican House Leader Tilson said: "In connection with the proposed $25,000,000 dole, there is no place for compromise...
When the committee, headed by Chair-man Borah, finally strolled in and sat about the table, Jurist Root began a three-hour exposition of his handiwork. Reviewing the World Court's history and its relation to the council of the League of Nations, he detailed his objections to the Senate's rigid reservation against the Court's rendering an advisory opinion on any question in which the U. S. has or claims to have an interest. Under the Root formula, views are to be exchanged first between the U. S. and the Court on the question...
...Senator Borah: "The torpedoing of the report by the individual views of the Commissioners leaves the report without any force or effect...
...Herbert Hoover's greatest oratorical supporter in 1928, but broke with him soon after the inaugural because the President disapproved of the export debenture plan of farm relief. Today over the President's objections Senator Borah is demanding a special session of Congress because "we will find it very embarrassing to go home...
...orator, Mr. Borah's chief characteristics are deliberateness, earnestness and a meticulous selection of words. He speaks without notes, says ''If you don't get any new thoughts while on your feet you'd better sit down." An adroit phrase maker, he knows the dramatic value of repetition. It was Borah who said of Mexico: "God made us neighbors; let justice make us friends." Daniel Webster is his political hero, Ralph Waldo Emerson his philosophic guide, Honore Balzac his chief source of literary amusement. Once in puritanical disgust he burned a whole set of Frank...