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...breakbone" fever,* parrot fever. During one study he contracted breakbone fever, during another parrot fever. The parrot fever attack made him particularly useful to the wife of Senator William Edgar Borah when she contracted that disease. Serum from Dr. Armstrong's immune blood cured her. Dr. Armstrong's current assignment is last year's epidemic of sleeping sickness in St. Louis (TIME, Oct. 2, 1933, et ante). Last week he was working on the serology of the strangest of the St. Louis sleeping sickness cases when, too ill to continue, he went to the Naval Hospital...
...Senator Borah's recent warning that a naval race will cause war states only half the problem, for the struggle for superiority in arms is a symptom of more fundamental animosities. It is true, as the Senator laments, that the impending renunciation of treaty restrictions gives the lie to the professions of pacifism which our diplomats bandy about, but those paper limitations, so readily abandoned, are rather a confession of intent to give battle than a statement of Christian generosity. The signatories, like mutually mistrustful urchins, concede one another a theoretically equal start, but tacitly confess the possibility of hostilities...
...President Hoover, having had difficulty in finding a successor to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, named Judge Cardozo to the Supreme Court at the suggestion of Senators Borah and Wagner...
Thus Senator Borah, speeding to Washington, summarized his feelings about the election. Well were his words chosen to win back to himself the public attention which for weeks had been pre-empted by the campaign. In every mind on the morning after was one big question: Who is going to be the other party...
...Borah of Idaho in Washington State on sneak-trip, says he has confidential assurances from White House there will be no central bank, and no inflationary moves with silver. Bill is very sore, blasting New Deal right and left. . . . Borah said confidentially that his private information was the Roosevelt speech to bankers was window-dressing; he claims 'Roosevelt has sold out to the money power.' Bankers here generally laugh at the Roosevelt speech, because they are stuffed with money and Government paper and are trying every way to make loans...