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...Senator Dill explained that a private friend had said something about a judgeship but that he (Dill) considered it only a joke. California's Senator Johnson rattled off a speech against confirmation at such high speed that the galleries heard only a blur of sound. Idaho's Sena- tor Borah was in the middle of a long, involved sentence when he was cut short by the Vice President's gavel calling for the vote. Result...
...Prize Committee rendered a public service in 1929 sufficiently disinterested and meritorious to deserve a gold medal. Not that newspapers did not crusade. The New York World, for example, crusaded against corruption in bankruptcy courts. The New York Evening Post exposed in Germany the forgery of documents involving Senator Borah in Soviet bribery. But the prize committee (names withheld) were either unimpressed or unable to agree. No reason was given for the no-award. Nor was there a 1929 award for "best editorial...
Idaho's Senator Borah, leader of the Parker opposition, flayed the nominee "because I think he is committed to principles and propositions to which I am very thoroughly opposed." Declared Nebraska's Senator Norris at the end of a three-hour harangue: "I close as I began. Judge Parker is only an incident. The Supreme Court is only an incident. Human liberty is the issue. The preservation of our Government is the issue...
...without any adequate investigation; 3) If high officials in the country where the letters appear seem to be involved, thorough investigation results in the conclusion that they are forgeries. (Cases in point: 1) The Zinoviev letter, now generally considered a forgery; 2) The letters purporting to show that Senators Borah and Norris had taken $100,000 each from the Reds, which were definitely proven forgeries by investigations pursued across the Atlantic and through numerous German courts...
...good friend Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of the House Speaker.? When that evening returns showed she had carried the State, including Chicago, she announced: " I feel sobered by my victory. ... I would be less than human if I were not highly pleased." From Idaho's Senator Borah, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and also an opponent of the World Court, came a telegram: I HAVE A VACANCY ON MY COMMITTEE WAITING...