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...flying off in a dozen individual directions. When the news of Bronson Cutting's death was brought to the Capitol, Bob La Follette burst into tears and would not go on the floor. In the Senate Chamber Norris bowed his head and covered his eyes with his hands, Borah openly wept...
Secretary Morgenthau had to reconsider his immediate plans for reintroducing silver to the world. He called the silver bloc (Senators Pittman, Borah, Wheeler, Adams, King) to the Treasury for a conference. Although the world price for silver stood above the U. S. price, it was decided that for the moment the U. S. would not raise its ante a third time. Promptly the world price flopped back below the U.S. level to wait for the next move...
...Byrns is not the man his fierce eyebrows make him out to be. Senator Borah, whose eyebrows are equally bushy, licks his thumb and smooths them down to polite dimensions. Speaker Byrns lets his grow wild and in so doing they belie him. For 40 years, ever since as a country boy he talked his way into the State legislature at Nashville, he has put a friendly arm around the shoulders of his constituents and told them they "ought to be comin' up to see" him oftener. In 1908 he got himself elected to Congress in place of Nashville...
...point of order," went on Senator Borah, almost at the top of his lungs, "is well taken but it has not yet been carried...
...jumped Majority Leader Robinson to invoke the most solemn of parliamentary devices: to direct the Sergeant-at-Arms to preserve order in the Chamber. Senator Pittman put the question. Senators Robinson, Borah & Copeland shouted...