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After a month spent in Soviet Russia in 1931 Elizabeth Eloise Kirkpatrick (Mrs. Albert Wallwick) Dilling returned to her Chicago suburb to write and publish The Red Network, which includes in its list of some 1,300 U. S. radicals the names of Mrs. Roosevelt, Secretary Ickes, Senator Borah, Professor Irving Fisher and Mrs. J. Borden Harriman. At a hearing of the Illinois Senate committee investigating University of Chicago last month, Mrs. Dilling spent two hours exposing such "Reds" as Newton D. Baker, the late Jane Addams, Harold H. Swift ("the cream-puff type"), Louis D. Brandeis ("He contributes...
Huey Long quoted from the Bible, tried to look up his quotation in the Book of Hosea, found it was not there. So he expounded some other passages instead. Then he asked how many Senators had read the Schechter case decision. Only Idaho's Borah held up his hand. Thereupon Senator Long proceeded to expound...
First to give a direct answer to Franklin Roosevelt was that famed constitutional warhorse, William Edgar Borah. Taking to the radio, the Senator from Idaho cried: "We live under a written Constitution. ... A decision of the Court upon the theory that the Court consider anything other than the terms of the Constitution itself would create a complete judicial oligarchy. It would leave the question of the extent of power to the determination of those exercising power-a complete definition of despotic power...
...Senate interest in debating the AAAmendments was lost while Senators sat at their desks reading the decision. Senator Borah remarked that the decision would probably affect the future of AAA as well as NRA. Nobody knew yet just how many New Deal measures delegating power to the Executive or regulating business that "affects" interstate commerce might be virtually outlawed. But now that the Supreme Court had broken the back of NRA over a coopful of chickens, anything was likely to befall the New Deal from that august tribunal...
...House did as the President wished-insisted on a two-year extension without emasculation-it appeared that NRA's death might be swifter. For the Senate had passed the nine-months resolution only because Senator Borah and other NRA enemies had agreed to it as a price for not fighting any form of NRA renewal. Said Senator Pat Harrison, Administration whip...