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Senator Robinson's other argument to leave liquor control exclusively to the States started a swirling debate around the ghost of the saloon. His deep chest heaving, Senator Robinson summed up after Senators Borah, Glass, Steiwer and Capper had been heard...
Kentucky's Barkley demanded a roll call. Not until the clerk reached "Borah" was the first "no" recorded. Packed in the galleries, professional Prohibitors gazed down at the scene like stone images. At last Vice President Curtis intoned...
...matter of very great and heartening significance," declared Senator Borah, Foreign Relations Committee chairman. ¶ Last week Chairman Everett Sanders of the Republican National Committee, onetime Coolidge secretary, called on the President to spike reports that he was going to resign...
Calm as a badger, up rose Idaho's wrinkled Borah, seldom the man to stop a good fight. He wanted to make way for an amendment to the Glass bill which would make it less obnoxious to the Long faction. He asked for unanimous consent to limit further debate on the bill in a proposal tantamount to cloture. "If we cannot secure agreement," he added grimly, "I myself am going to make a speech." He secured agreement...
Such a situation churned Congress to fresh confusion. All last week the Senate was deadlocked by a filibuster, the mainspring of which was debt relief through currency expansion (see p. 12). Idaho's Borah had a plan to "cheapen the dollar." Oklahoma's Thomas called for "reflation-or revolution." Into the hopper poured bill after bill proposing a widening of R. F. C. relief to debtors, even to the point of paying their back taxes. In the House 30 Representatives put themselves behind a bill by Mississippi's Busby to issue...