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...civil service administration under a three-man commission. It was defeated, but by such a narrow margin-50-to-38-that Floor Leader Alben Barkley promptly betrayed the fact that his alarm outweighed his satisfaction by leaving himself appallingly wide open to a rude jibe from Idaho's Borah. To Mr. Borah's suggestion that the President favored shifting the Forest Service from the Agriculture to the Interior Department, perturbed Leader Barkley indignantly cried...
...under the principle advocated by Hungary, both the State Department and the Treasury cautiously shied away from endorsing it. Neither Republican nor Democratic leaders were yet ready to risk saying that a dollar in hand was worth two in the bush. Rumbled Idaho's William Edgar Borah: "I am utterly opposed to any further compromise. If Hungary stood absolutely alone, my feeling would be entirely different...
Hiram Johnson is the Senate's Great Isolationist. William Borah is its Great Conversationalist. He had heard of Anthony Eden's pregnant preference to "say nothing" when asked in the House of Commons if Britain and the U. S. were acting in concert after the Ladybird and Panay bombings. He had been even more abashed when the late U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Robert W. Bingham, had assured a British audience: "If dictatorships are better prepared to begin war, democracies are better able to finish it. Despots have forced America & Britain to undertake rearmament, & having undertaken...
...passport. He was acquitted in 1936. Doc Robinson, who, it turned out, had simply been mistaken about his birth-he is actually a British subject-was then arrested on a deportation warrant charging him with illegal entry into the U. S. Upon intervention of Idaho's Senator Borah, who stays at the Robinson home when in Moscow, the charge was dropped. His status regularized by a trip to Cuba last summer, from which he returned on an immigration visa. Doc Robinson is currently awaiting naturalization papers...
...kerosene days of old Standard Oil Co., the most effective private monopoly ever developed in the U. S. Roosevelt I raised trust-busting to prime issue of his time. In the roaring 1920s the subject was seldom mentioned except by such old-school Progressives as George Norris and William Borah, and even in the first four years of the New Deal trust-busting languished. Meantime the form of Big Business changed from the monopolistic trust to the domination of an industry by a group of potent corporations. Monopoly, the market of one seller, had in many cases given...