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...food & drug bill. A few Senators like Clark of Missouri (home of Listerine), Bailey of North Carolina (home of Vicks) and Tydings of Maryland (home of Bromo Seltzer), were naturally interested in his bill, but the majority practically drowned out the speaker with loud private conversations. Finally Senator Borah, who is a stickler for Senate etiquette, uprose to remark to the presiding officer...
...first time since Franklin Roosevelt entered the White House, Senator Borah sat down to lunch with him from trays on the Presidential desk...
...would soon emerge for final passage and the President's signature. Carrying some $400,000,000, all but $50,000,000 for the Army, it is the biggest U. S. armaments expenditure since 1921. And, barring the possibility of the passage of an amendment sponsored by Senator Borah prohibiting the use of work relief money for rearmament, coupled to it will be some $405,000,000 from the Public Works Administration, to be spent in 36 states on Army buildings, repairs, Air Corps, mechanization and motorization. As in the case of England, most of these vast expenditures will represent...
Washington, March 21--The Senate today rejected an amendment by Senator William E. Borah, to the $4,880,000,000 Work Relief Bill designed to revive the anti-trust laws suspended under the National Industrial Recovery...
...good word for NRA, not a single Senator on either side of the aisle went to that organization's defense. Meanwhile courts in Missouri, New York and Wisconsin continued to pull more legal feathers from the Blue Eagle's already skimpy tail. In New Orleans Senator Borah's nephew, Judge Wayne Borah, refused to grant an injunction restraining a box company from alleged violation of the lumber code, pointedly added: "Personally, I believe the whole NIRA is unconstitutional." The Senate Finance Committee, whose Chairman Pat Harrison had maneuvered an NRA investigation out of unfriendly hands into...