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...from his second-row mahogany desk, on the aisle. Off the blue-baize-covered table of the Foreign Relations Committee room will come the little golden plate, stamped with his name. In the leather chair where he presided, where he wrestled out foreign problems with the late William E. Borah, will sit a new chairman-almost certain to be Walter F. George, of Vienna...
Twenty years ago last week a tall, hard-working Democrat of 38 was in the midst of a speechmaking campaign throughout the U. S. No vast crowds attended his meetings, no swarms of reporters hung on his words. The atmosphere was heavy with the powerful speeches of William Borah and Henry Cabot Lodge, and only a fitful flickering came from the Democratic Presidential nominee, James Cox of Ohio. The illness of Woodrow Wilson filled Washington with rumors; war-sickened citizens wanted above all to get back to normal. Nobody paid much attention to the Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate. He defended...
...agreed with my views, they wouldn't have voted for me." All explainers ignored the fact that when a State once acquires a solid admiration for the gnarled-hickory character of an elder statesman it often continues to vote for him regardless of issues -as Idaho did for Borah, as Virginia has done for Glass...
...Giggling Professor. When the New Deal rediscovered "monopolies" in 1937-38 and picked Thurman Arnold to go after them, the appointment was regarded by old-fashioned trustbusters of the Borah school as a rather bad joke. Arnold was a cynic, a word-juggler, a clown. With a background of Wyoming sheepherding, Princeton ('11) and Harvard Law ('14), he had returned from the war to help General Smedley Butler drive the prostitutes from New Orleans. Said he: "I didn't even make a dent in the town." His cynicism and love of low comedy were augmented back...
...futile anti-trust crusades "men like Senator Borah founded political careers." When Arnold confronted the Senate sub committee that was to approve his Department of Justice appointment, his chief questioner was Borah. Arnold said he believed in the anti-trust laws. Said Borah, closing The Folklore of Capitalism: "I've been sadly misled by your book." In office, Arnold continued to mislead...