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...happens that my eyesight is seriously impaired and I frequently carry opera glasses to help out. I had anticipated pleasure in looking at, and identifying, many of the august (?) members of the upper house, including Borah, Glass, Tom Tom Heflin who mortally fears, etc. Imagine my chagrin when I lifted my glasses to my eyes, to be told by the doorkeeper that it was verboten to make use of opera glasses in the Senate galleries...
Wedge? While Attorney General Mitchell was primed to receive the Prohibition Unit under his wing, predictions were heard that President Hoover would have to use more pressure, unceasing and determined, to induce Congress to act on this legislation. Senator Borah was ominously silent on all the Wickersham recommendations. Senator Norris insisted that they required "a great deal of study." Senator La Follette was already in open opposition. He called the Report a ''wedge being driven into the Constitution." Only such unswerving Drys as Ohio's Senator Fess gave blanket approval...
...cane producers, led by Louisiana's Senators Ransdell and Broussard, for the House rate of 3? per Ib. (Cuban: 2.40?); unorganized consumers, led by Mississippi's Senator Harrison, for the existing rate of 2.20? per Ib. (Cuban: 1.76?); scattered farm Senators, led by Idaho's Senator Borah, for an as-yet-indefinite bounty system for domestic producers in place of an actual increase in sugar rates...
...Senator Borah has charged on your Senate floor that conditions in Haiti are intolerable. I call upon Senator Borah to indicate what act of cruelty my government has performed to any citizen under the Constitution of Haiti...
...Nomination by Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio of Senator Borah as chairman of the prospective joint committee of Congress to study Prohibition enforcement machinery. "His discussion shows he is familiar with every aspect of the problem. He could do a 'service for 'Dry America,' " said Senator Fess. ¶ Involved explanations by Attorney-General Mitchell to the effect that since March one U. S. district attorney has been ousted, five forced to resign. Senator Borah thought this record "unimpressive." ¶ Muffled thunder over Capitol Hill of the storm of Prohibition debate, gathering during the holidays, about...