POLITICAL NOTE: Borahism

Huey Long last week made his first contribution to the political campaign of 1936. Rising in the Senate he announced his intention of putting something into the record "for posterity to read." For this honorable preservation he proposed no words of his own but a quotation with which he credited Senator Borah:

'The Constitution of the U. S. is a powerful enough document to survive the attacks of President Roosevelt and the defense of ex-President Hoover."

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