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Then Idaho's Borah, in his capacity as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called upon the President. He had many a thing to say about the World Court, about reparations, about naval armaments...
When Indiana's Watson, the Republican leader, tried to tell Senator Heflin that the Senate could not properly pass his resolution, the Alabaman, with bellowing surprise, asked if Watson wasn't the "finest old he-horse of the Klan." Senator Watson puffed and protested. Senator Borah rebuked Senator Heflin for bigotry, only to have the Democratic leader, Robinson of Arkansas, who has more than once rebuked Senator Heflin similarly, retort: "The Senator [Borah] can now speak of religious liberty, but you never heard him make such an eloquent appeal during the campaign. Then he was as dumb as an oyster...
...hours were required for the 71st Congress formally to get seated in the capitol last week and prepare itself for work. Called by President Hoover because Idaho's Senator Borah induced him during the presidential campaign to promise quick legislative action on farm relief and tariff revision, the session, an "extraordinary" one, was to prove a testing ground of the President's potency as a political leader...
...them all the best engagements. Of the present Cabinet, Messrs. Stimson, Mellon, Adams, Lament and Mitchell are booked in advance. Only a few Senators and their wives hold the steady interest of Washington Society. Among these are Senators Bingham, Couzens, Edge, Hale, Johnson, Moses, Phipps, Shipstead, Wagner, Tydings. Senator Borah still moves at the edge of this group, an old lion whose mane and roaring once petrified and enchanted but are now too familiar to impress...
...protocol approved last week will now be submitted to the Council of the League, to the 52 states adherent to the World Court, and to the U.S. Senate−assuming, of course, that no previous hitch occurs. Last week in Washington such irreconcilable Anti-Courters as Senator William Edgar Borah re-trumpeted their opposition, but President Hoover was expected to favor and secure ratification...