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...Business is happier when the Capitol is deserted. Legislation and rumors of legislation cause prices to fluctuate. Besides, Senators Borah, Johnson, Underwood are among those booking passage to Europe...
...States in the Permanent Court of International Justice under the League of Nations. While avoiding an actual place in the League through certain reservations, the President asks the Senate to recognize the practicability of the League institutions. Although the message reached the Senate too late for any discussion, Senator Borah, the iconoclast, and Senator La Follette, the troublemaker, along with other leading "Irreconcilable", have hinted darkly that they "might have much to say within...
...streets of Berlin, because of the depreciation in currency, merely as a means for the Germans to advertise the troubles in which they are involved; to enroll the sympathy of other nations; and to arouse the feeling of protest against the French occupation of the Ruhr valley, which Senator Borah has recently proclaimed...
When a gentleman like Mr. Borah is grossly abused, there is, in barbarous countries, a single remedy. The abuser may be answered. In civilized lands, where the duello is tolerated, a second course is available. Our benighted America, however, must get along with the first...
...pretensions of a gentleman, he may be killed. If he is simply ill-bred, a dog-whip is substituted for the sword. It may be I lack the courage for martyrdom, even if I possessed the convenient opportunity. In any event I am strongly persuaded that Mr. Borah belongs to the latter class...