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...Simmons of North Carolina has distracted more than one speaking Senator by a resounding clap of his hands over his head. His colleague Senator Overman summons aid as if he were applauding at a play. Senator Norris' finger-snap is more of a gesture than a sound. Senator Borah rarely uses a page. As a Senator from Kansas, Vice President Curtis himself perfected a sort of crapshooting style of finger-snapping that was the envy of younger Senators...
...analysts could show that Mr. Kellogg did not originate the outlawing-war idea ; that a comparatively obscure lay figure named Salmon Oliver Levinson, Chicago lawyer, was invited to the White House the day the signatures were affixed in recognition of certain conversations he had had years prior with Senator Borah of Idaho and others...
...Senator Borah, arch-campaigner last year for Herbert Hoover, swerved off in a new direction when he contributed this statement to the growing discussion...
...Notice was given of opening the polls five minutes beforehand. The 400 voters were assembled in a line and when they had voted . . . polls were closed." Hot-collared Novelist Sinclair Lewis, charging General Butler with "conspiracy to murder the men unjustly declared bandits," wrote a loud letter to Senator Borah of the Foreign Relations Committee, demanding an inquiry. General Butler blandly replied to Novelist Lewis that he had told the committee all that "and a great deal more...
This reasoning brought a loud rumble of protest from the square jaw of Hon. William Edgar Borah, Chairman of the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee...