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...Rejected a bill by Idaho's Borah to reduce Congressional salaries...
...laying of Democrats Baker and Roosevelt. "The Reno-like celerity with which Democratic leaders are seeking to divorce themselves from the League of Nations," observed New Hampshire's tart Senator Moses, "is interesting and amusing. . . . Deathbed conversions, however, smack of the theatrical." To this Idaho's Senator Borah piously added: "Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand...
...Brother Kermit was running a steamship line in Manhattan. Brother Theodore, adding fresh lustre to the name, was starting out for the other side of the world. Alice remained in Washington, perhaps to try to woo Hoover support from such a vehement anti-Hooverite as her good friend Senator Borah. There were two others. They were Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Governor of New York, and his wife Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. He was T. R.'s fifth cousin, she, his favorite niece. Yet President Roosevelt's immediate brood looked upon these two kinsmen with political distrust and personal disfavor because they...
...Borah Night the Trocadéro was packed with French patriots, hottest among them being the blue-shirted Fascists of Les Jeunesses Patriotes and Paris's stalwart, cane-swinging young Royalists, Les Camelots du Roi. When Senator Borah stood up to broadcast from quiet Washington he little suspected that wildest pandemonium was already loose beneath the Trocadéro loudspeakers that were to shout his words. A message from the Archbishop of Canterbury which Viscount...
...typewriters, covering such Senate giants as Allison, Sherman, Quay, Bacon, Platt. Today 368 correspondents hover in the gallery where Jim Preston has been a sort of Queen Bee. His job: contact man between Senate & Press. He knows and remembers facts, figures, faces, dates, data & doings. When does Senator Borah speak next? What did the Finance Committee do last week? When did the first Muscle Shoals bill pass? Who got a black eye for calling Ben Till man a liar?* The answer to all such questions: "Ask Preston." Friendly and help ful about the gallery, Jim Preston, in his loose, wrinkled...