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...Senator Borah and Representative Tinkham have their way, all the fire works of nullification, states fights et al will be revived after an unbroken, if often troubled, slumber of nearly a century. Andrew Jackson's spirit doubtless smiles faintly, as it observes the dismay that spreads cloudlike over the visages of presidential candidates cornered by these two assiduous members of Congress. To be asked about the Eighteenth Amendment was bad enough, but with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, never mentioned except in the appendices of school histories, unearthed and held as a mirror to the poor candidate, one ceases...
...McNary Bill passed the Senate 53 votes to 23. Only seven Senators from west of the Mississippi voted or paired against it-Borah, Phipps, Shortridge, Warren, Smoot, Walsh, King. Of the Senate's eight Presidential possibilities, the Messrs, Borah, Goff and Walsh were the only ones who stood against what Honest John Farmer is said to want...
...hand, made it clear that it stood for intervention as a policy, and that it was not called upon to defend the administration of the policy, there being a distinct difference between the two. International law authorities, such as Charles Cheney Hyde '98, and United States Senator William E. Borah were cited...
...President, Mr. Hoover in this letter to Senator Borah reaches the sublimest height of epistolary humbuggery ever attained by man. [Laughter...
...Borah add: 'Herbert, so far you have ignored this question. If you do not immediately answer it "yes" or "no," the righteous wrath of vast multitudes of voters will wax hot against you and, like a great conflagration, consume you and your vaulting ambition on the floor of the Kansas City convention.' [Laughter...