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...work relief plus $880,000.000 to continue present relief programs, saw the light of the Senate floor. Carter Glass, who in Committee had voted unsuccessfully to cut it down to a $2,880,000,000 dole, as Appropriations Chairman dutifully expounded its purpose. When he had finished, Senator Borah inquired...
...Borah's inquiry was only the opening gun of a Republican bombardment. The Republicans had held a caucus and for once found themselves in some unanimity. The thing they were most unanimous about was that the $4.000,000,000 ought to be spent not later than June 30, 1936, instead of 1937 as specified in the bill. On that point their unanimity could do them no possible good, because the Democratic majority, disunited as they might be on other points, were united against the Republicans on that one: for on that point depended the question of whether there should...
...legal bulwark against democratic tyranny. Second, those foreign statesmen who recall what American writers and politicians said in connection with the war debts--that if was "morally reprehensible" for sovereign governments to "funk on their contracts." The third class is not really a class, it is just Senator Borah. Will he endeavor to have his legislation, making it impossible for governments that defaulted on their debt contracts to borrow again in the United States, made applicable to the Roosevelt government...
...that rhubarb and spinach be declared basic commodities, but it remained for Representative Lindsay Carter Warren to propose a "Potato Tax Act of 1935." It remained for pious Representative Ralph Owen Brewster (former Governor) of Maine to enounce that "Potatoes are the Forgotten Crop." It remained for William Edgar Borah, most famed member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to take himself to AAA's hearings on potato restriction and portentously declare "Idaho raises a very fine potato. I am not quite familiar with the plan Mr. Warren has offered, but I can say frankly that ... the people...
This represented a profound change in mood on Mr. Borah's part. Last year the great individualist opposed the cotton and tobacco control bills. But last year he made a mistake by being asleep at the political switch when AAA put a "compensatory" tax on jute sacking in which Idaho farmers bag their potatoes. This year he wishes to avoid mistakes, for next year he faces an election. Next year Mr. Brewster also faces an election and his constituency includes Aroostook County where, because of potato prices, the current relief bill is $100,000 a month and going...