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...Senator Borah (74 last fortnight) opened the Senate fight to keep Franklin Roosevelt haltered by getting up and reading one of his rare written speeches. Two days before, the President had declared that U. S. policy is not only avoidance of war but prevention of it in all parts of the world. Senator Borah addressed himself to the democracies whom every one now knows Franklin Roosevelt proposes to save if necessary. He flayed Foreign Minister Bonnet of France and the French press for criticizing the House's action in haltering Mr. Roosevelt. He asked what difference there was between...
...Silver Senators demanded as high as $1.29. The Administration ascertained that 70.95? was a rock-bottom price for which enough silverites would desert their hard-money allies. It was crude barter by both sides, but it worked. The bill finally passed 43-39 with Senators Borah, Pittman and O'Mahoney leading seven silverite sellouts, setting the price of silver...
...increased silver price meant an added $9,000.000 annual subsidy to U. S. miners. As soon as the Senate voted, the Sunshine Mine in Senator Borah's Idaho (nation's largest producer) announced it would reopen...
...Senator Borah, of course, was stanch at Senator Johnson's side. So was North Dakota's Gerald ("Neutrality") Nye. They declared they had a minimum of 34 votes, perhaps as many as 60. Thirty-four Senators exercising "every honorable and legitimate means" at their command could filibuster Neutrality far into August's dog days...
...would have broad discretion to regulate U. S. exports, travel by U. S. citizens, dealing in combatants' securities, etc., etc. Passage of the Bloom bill by the House would mean little, even in diluted form. In the Senate a band of 21 isolationists led by Idaho's Borah and North Dakota's Nye promised to fight this Roosevelt brand of Neutrality all summer if necessary...