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...fight on Mr. Hughes commenced slowly, almost apologetically, at the instigation of Nebraska's Senator Norris. Gathering momentum, it quickly drew in Idaho's Senator Borah, chronic complainant. Within the year Senator Borah had opposed President Hoover on farm relief, on the tariff, on prohibition enforcement personnel, on "freedom-of-the-seas" at the London Naval Conference. It was no great leap from loyalty for him to object to President Hoover's choice as Chief Justice. One by one other Republican Progressives began to rally against Mr. Hughes. Such assorted Democratic Senators as Virginia's Glass...
...Senator Borah raked the Supreme Court for its decision, in the Baltimore Street R. R. case, wherein it had held that a franchise obtained for nothing was worth $5,000,000 to the company, that earnings of 6.26% were so low as to be confiscatory. He warned of "the great economic oppression" that would follow such decisions. Said he: "I do not know of a proposition of more concern to all the people than the relationship which these properties and natural resources shall bear to the masses of the people in the U. S." The Senator also found that...
Shuey sayings: "Ashurst [of Arizona] is one of the most delightful speakers here now. . . . Borah's a pretty good speaker but not aggressive enough. . . . John Sharp Williams [of Mississippi] had about the best intelligence in the Senate and deepest culture. . . . King and Smoot [both of Utah] speak most frequently. . . . Why don't Senators nowadays look as distinguished as their predecessors? Well, perhaps they don't get enough to drink. You know that helps a man's looks...
Briand and Borah; Clémenceau, Chesterton and Clemens; Stresemann and Stimson; Poincare and Pershing; Masaryk, Mussolini, MacDonald and Mellon ?they were all of them to be seen last week in the library of Manhattan's fastidious Pynson Printers, most of them in chalk, Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln in lithograph. Had it not been withdrawn for reproduction on the cover of this issue of TIME, the crayon likeness of Charles Evans Hughes would also have appeared...
...Senate, Senator John James Blaine of Wisconsin celebrated by offering a resolution for the outright repeal of the 18th Amendment, admitted that it had no chance of passage. Senate Borah urged that the resolution be brought to a vote "to make it clear that this amendment is here to stay." The author of the amendment, Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, read a carefully prepared rhetorical speech in praise of its "triumphant tread" to an almost empty Senate chamber. South Carolina's Senator Blease predicted full Dry enforcement "if we had a first class deputy sheriff, about three constables...