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...years the first name on the Senate's alphabetical roll-call, he always responds with vigor, starting off proceedings with a flourish. Aside from his career on the Judiciary Committee and in spite of his long service, he is neither a Grade A Senator like Borah or Wagner or a Grade A Democrat like Robinson of Arkansas or Byrnes. Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a loyal, picturesque party politician of average intelligence, who sounds better than he really is. His term expires March...
...fine January morning 27 years ago the Idaho legislature elected William Edgar Borah to the U. S. Senate. Among his colleagues today Senator Borah is senior member in point of service. To the press gallery he is the Senate's No. 1 orator and to historians the Senator most likely to be remembered in their future chronicles of this era. But to U. S. Presidents from Roosevelt to Roosevelt "Bill" Borah has always been the Great Opposer. Last week the Senator from Idaho arose to his immemorial task and demonstrated that the New Deal was to be no exception...
Rooseveltian candor, Rooseveltian liberalism, Rooseveltian charm, some people thought, had insensibly softened stern Critic Borah. His favorite topic, unforgiveness of War debts, was practically shelved by the new Administration. Relief was being doled in quantities of which he approved. He championed silver and the President gave him and his fellows the Silver Purchase Act. When the Recovery Act was under debate he succeeded in inserting a provision on another of his favorite subjects?forbidding NRA codes to "permit monopolies or monopolistic practices"?and then ultimately voted against the measure. He joined Senator Nye in attacking NRA as a promoter...
Last week Senator Borah, with the President at sea and Congress scattered, remained in Washington, as he has often done before, to seize a good opportunity for publicizing his views. Before a microphone he poured out his ringing phrases from coast to coast and once more became Borah the Great Opposer. Points on which he gave the New Deal a thorough flaying...
After this opening blast, Senator Borah last week started for Boise by way of Chicago. After a month's rest, he said, he would carry out his promise. Conviction and not political necessity will take this one-man-party out on the stump because Senator Borah will not come up for re-election until 1936. But then all seasons are open seasons for the Great Opposer...