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...France: Borah bores her to death...
...Wets had been present fortnight ago to fill the House Caucus Room (TIME, Feb. 24). The small committee room was crowded with 300 ardent spectators. Its air grew hot and sour. Thirty newsmen scribbled rapidly to keep pace with the flowing testimony of Wet witnesses. Idaho's Dry Senator Borah dropped in but, after hearing the audience applaud a particularly violent denunciation of the 18th Amendment, hastily withdrew. He, like others, knew that all the Wet noise would not sway a Dry Congress into relaxing the law one iota...
Last week saw the beginning of a significant movement in the Senate for another Prohibition investigation. Unlike others, it was sponsored by Drys. Its proponents were Nebraska's Senator Norris, Idaho's Senator Borah, Montana's Senator Wheeler, Iowa's Senator Brookhart. Senator Norris, as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had offered a resolution for that committee to inquire into the whole wide field of Prohibition enforcement, to study even its enforceability, with a view to remedial legislation. Behind this Dry movement was a dissatisfaction with the secret work of the National Law Enforcement Commission and its recommendations. Some...
...Every partisan effort was made to discredit the Coalition's management of the tariff bill. The Coalition's defense: The House without adequate debate had passed a tariff bill with exorbitantly high rates; the Senate had to revise the whole measure; revision with fair debate took time. Declared Senator Borah: "Time is not nearly so important as to have a good bill when it is passed...
...scrap five battleships, the U. S., three. This still leaves Britain the advantage of the 33,900-ton Rodney. U. S. naval officers blandly suggested that this country be allowed to scrap a fourth battleship, build a duplicate Rodney to take its place. This brought instant protest from Senator Borah in Washington, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations...