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...appearance he is short (5 ft. 6 in.), chunky (160 lb.), with a white crest above a round, deep-lined, bespectacled face. He favors brown suits with white-braided vests. Like Coolidge, he smokes cigars in paper holders. Next to Idaho's Borah, he is the Senate's most forceful orator. No casual debater, he carefully prepares his infrequent addresses, draws a big gallery. His delivery is marked by physical violence, his whole body vibrating, his pointed finger shooting skyward. His voice is loud and clear, with words coming out like bursts from a machine gun. He sprinkles...
...leader came out of the Senate and the old ones were either "lame ducks" or disgruntled individualists with a narrowing conception of public service. Borah stock was far below...
...Received from Idaho's Borah a resolution to pay the Mexican Government $30,000 as an "act of grace" for the killing of two young Mexicans in 1931 by Oklahoma deputy sheriffs. A similar resolution was approved last week by the House Foreign Affairs Committee...
Announcement of these initial loans last week, five months after the system was created, did not come in time to halt a concerted Senate drive to wipe the Home Loan Bank Board out of existence. Its record of inaction outraged Senator Borah who week before offered a sweeping repealer. Said he: "The act is proving wholly unsatisfactory. We are going to build up a tremendous institution at very great expense without any real benefit...
...beer-for-revenue outlook is better in the House than in the Senate where such Dry die-hards as Texas' Sheppard and Idaho's Borah can blockade action by talk. House Democrats who have announced their readiness to promote a quick beer vote include Majority Leader Rainey, Chairmen Collier of Ways & Means, Byrns of Appropriations, Pou of Rules...