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Sirs: The enclosed footnote- appeared in TIME, April 11, giving credit to Senator Borah, as an apt phrase maker. Senator Borah is everything you claim for him, and I have the highest regard for the Senator and his work. However, there is a question as to the particular phrase which you have credited him with making. On Nov. 28, 1921, I attended a meeting addressed by Mr. William Jennings Bryan, at which he said he was asked by Mr. Barrett to give to the Pan-American Building, in Washington, a photograph of himself, and, a sentiment to go with...
...Secretaries Kellogg, Wilbur, Mellon, Work; Speaker Longworth; Congressmen Snell, Treadway; Senators Borah, Curtis; C. Bascom Slemp, onetime Secretary to President Coolidge...
...particularly new arguments were created by Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho, Dry Republican, and President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, Wet Republican, in their Boston debate last week, but what was said was said eloquently. Herewith some...
...From Mr. Borah: "I have a profound respect for the opinions of Senator Root; I know his standing as a lawyer and a statesman, but I have a still more profound respect for the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. If the Constitution of the United States, as construed by the Supreme Court, be not the law, then there is no law. . . . "I agree with Dr. Butler that this is not a case which can be cured by the application of political soothing syrup, and certainly the Republican Party would not take a position in the next...
...notes are in the form of memoranda jotted down during the course of the debate, Borah, in his verbal clash with Butler, convinced his audience that Prohibition was a sound reform in its present form...