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...accepted by the other powers. But after 13 years the World Court was probably the deadest political issue in the land. That deadness was precisely what gave World Court advocates hope of getting the U. S. in the Court this time. Senators Hiram Johnson of California, William Edgar Borah of Idaho and a handful of other bitter-enders, the ragged remnant of 1919, would orate against it, but nose-counters figured that well over the requisite two-thirds of the Senate would complaisantly go along with the President. In fact, approval of the World Court seemed so imminent...
Kicks. Congressional kicks against the Administration's Social Security program were that it was not liberal enough. To Townsend Planners the idea of $30 a month pensions was small change compared to their proposal of $200 a month. Said Senator Borah: "I am not satisfied to make an outlay of nearly $1,000.000,000 for armaments and $15 for old age." Said Senator Nye: "We are led to the mountain top by the generalized prospectus and rudely dropped by the detailed program...
...Congress, stand quot; the test of the doctrine of "strictly limited" delegation of legislative authority? Senator King of Utah sounded the mildest note of "Beware!" when he declared that the decision would be wholesome because it would make Congress "have due regard to Constitutional limitations." Sternest bewarist was Senator Borah who cried...
...evening was not Mrs. Roosevelt's gown of lipstick-red velvet with gold collar and sash, not Mme Sze's blue brocaded kimono and diamond tiara, not Danish Minister Otto Wadsted's scarlet coat with its front completely covered by gold braid, but William Edgar Borah in ordinary full dress. Although he has for years been a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the oldest socialites in Washington could not remember when the Senator from Idaho had previously attended such a White House function. "I came." said Senator Borah nobly, "out of respect for the President...
...TIME, Nov. 27, 1933), the U. S. Press last week breathed no such denunciation as at Adolf Hitler's "blood purge." In Moscow the U. S. Embassy sent expressions of sorrow at the assassination of Comrade Kirov, Dictator Stalin's "Dear Friend Sergei." In Washington, however, Senator William Edgar Borah, longtime champion for recognition of the Soviet Union, boomed: "As far as I can determine, from the few facts I have been able to get, these executions were wholly unjustifiable and indefensible...