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...cried, "going back to normal. . . . There is nothing which inspires such confidence as silver money." Only a handful of Senators thought they deserved more than the President had sent them. One was Senator Pittman's Nevada colleague, independent Patrick Aloysius McCarran. Others were Idaho's Borah, Montana's Wheeler, Oklahoma's Thomas, Louisiana's Long. It was a foregone conclusion, however, that Congress would accept the President's offering and pretend to like it. Meantime interested persons made an inventory of the President's second casket: Sop No. 1. The U. S. will...
Next day as General Johnson made public a letter he had written to Senator Borah last December promising to welcome and heed the Review Board's findings, the Board served notice that it would issue another report this week showing "even worse" conditions...
...question of the international debts is becoming greatly confused," stated Senator William E. Borah, to the United Press. "This confusion is brought about through the affirmative action of the debtor nations and the negative action of the creditor nation the United States...
...Senator himself admits, is admittedly an imperfect instrument and subject, like all the works of man, to the wear and tear of circumstance. Although it may be true that permitting the President to exercise discretionary tariff powers is equivalent to handing him some of the taxing power, as Senator Borah avers, this does not mean, as the Senator further go by the Democracy must forthwith go by the board. In England, where the doctrine of Cabinet responsibility permits the Prime Minister to exercise practically dictatorial powers, no imminent threat of the subjugation of the proletariat threatens...
...Constitution, for all the forensics of Senator Borah, is not the ultimate guardian of liberty; this must rest in the people themselves, and attempts to confine twentieth century policies within the unyielding framework of the Constitution as interpreted by the Borahs can prove but restrictive, not liberating. The only real question is, whether the cold facts of the situation demand permissive powers to be granted to the Executive, and if they do, whether Congress then has the makings of a real watchdog of liberty and not simply those of a canine with a penchant for baying at the moon. WOTAN...