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...deferred his trip to Angora (TIME, Nov. 6) by a sumptuous banquet in his honor. Footmen in red livery and gold buttons served caviar and champagne, there were crimson roses on the dinner table to honor the Soviet visitors, the turkey was called "Dindoneau a la Moskva" and Mmes Borah and Pittman, whose Senator husbands were respectively out of town and ill, attended...
...Washington unless there was a great outpouring of printing-press money. His polls of Congress showed a 20-to-1 sentiment in favor of quick inflation. Nevada's Senator Pittman tried to interest the White House in inflation by the free silver route. In Idaho Senator Borah rumbled: "Infla-tion is indispensable to the success of the NRA." A growing demand was developing for the Treasury to pay off depositors in closed banks with $3,000,000,000 in "greenbacks." The Iowa Farmers' Union was ranting for inflation and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace's scalp because...
...year career as editor, during which the Herald has gained 23,000 circulation, has been marked by many another conspicuous exploit. First thing after taking office she promoted and front-paged a quarrel with Alice Roosevelt Longworth, managing to involve also Ruth Hanna McCormick and Idaho's Senator Borah. She published an interview with the Haitian Minister purporting to show that a fort, once captured by General Smedley Butler, did not exist. General Butler demanded redress. Mrs. Patterson cleverly got her competing papers to publish a denial, without humiliating herself. She wangled an interview with Al Capone by walking...
Senator William Edgar Borah, 68, went to Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital for his annual physical examination, was advised to have an operation on his prostate gland, had it, rested comfortably...
...Senate thought that the President was taking an advantage and promptly exploded. California's Johnson leaped to his feet in hot protest. Why, there weren't even printed copies of the President's order for Senators! Wisconsin's La Follette and Idaho's Borah, who never want to go home, joined the fray. Pennsylvania's Reed called the President's action a "contemptuous gesture." Shouted Missouri's Clark: "Why is June 10, this day, sacred for adjournment?" Retorted Senator Borah: "Because the World Economic Conference begins on Monday." Starting a filibuster, Louisiana...