Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Time & again last week Chairman Key Pittman postponed a showdown in his Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the biggest question this Congress has had before it: The Neutrality law, the rules of behavior for the President of the U. S. should war break out abroad. The House had sent up...
Claude Swanson was chairman of the Senate Naval Committee in 1918 (when Franklin Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy), and ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1932 (when Franklin Roosevelt was President-elect), but he might never have been Secretary of the Navy if Harry Byrd...
No mediocrity, but a shrewd, hard-working careerist was Claude Swanson. A son of Reconstruction, he worked and borrowed his way through college and University of Virginia's law school. He made money as a country lawyer, ran a country newspaper on the side. After twelve years in the...
Old Senator Borah (74 last fortnight) opened the Senate fight to keep Franklin Roosevelt haltered by getting up and reading one of his rare written speeches. Two days before, the President had declared that U. S. policy is not only avoidance of war but prevention of it in all parts...
> The increased silver price meant an added $9,000.000 annual subsidy to U. S. miners. As soon as the Senate voted, the Sunshine Mine in Senator Borah's Idaho (nation's largest producer) announced it would reopen.