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...reads Section 3 of the 18th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution. To the lay mind it may not seem particularly funny, but last week it caused Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah some great−though very temporary−amusement...
Much reading of the Constitution has made Mr. Borah a solemn man whom the ordinary run of jokes fails to amuse. But this time he had gripped, he thought, a Constitutional jest, the cream of which would taste sour in the mouths of the Wets. All a-chuckle, he was not hesitant in sharing it with the world. Rhode Island had raised a captious question on the 18th Amendment's ratification. Senator Borah judicially pronounced it "utterly unsound" and then continued...
...prime joke this would have been, had not other students of Prohibition, perhaps less profound than Senator Borah but with better memories, recalled that on May 16, 1921, the Supreme Court had decided this exact point−and decided it solidly against Senator Borah's present interpretation. In the case of Dillon v. Gloss, Mr. Justice Van Devanter delivered the unanimous opinion of the court...
...Brookhart, Blaine, Borah, Frazier, Howell, Johnson, Dill, La Folle"?. Shipstead, Nye, Wheeler, all come within the category. There is little intellectual or moral fibre in any of them. They pother, trim and hedge...
...Borah−"The biggest sham of them all is the principle-peddler from Idaho, the Great God Borah...