Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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3) Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader in the Senate, onetime (1928) candidate for Vice President, downright, not too bright, given to thunderous wrath.
Senator Borah was moved to exclamation: ''The idea, that they sent that man over as an observer and not as a propagandist! Are they living in an intellectual cave?"
Senator King of Utah, formerly on the Naval Affairs Committee and much in touch with Shearer said: "He was plausible. He told me he had once been in the Navy and never had lost his interest in it. He said he had fine connections with certain Naval officers and could...
Richard Washburn Child, former U. S. ambassador to Italy, wrote to Senator Borah about the Senate investigation:
News that the Niagara-Hudson Power Corp. "Morgan Combine," had bought Frontier Power Corp., "Mellon Company" (see p. 41), sent billows rolling across the political sea. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York (Democrat) declared that the fact that 80% of New York State is now served by one hydro...