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At the commencement of the present War, the Directors, by circular letters, to which I refer to you, cautioned you and the other Agents of the Bank, against all Transactions, by which the Bank’s funds might be misemployed and wasted, in accommodating persons who speculated with their money, or with their credit, in the Stocks or otherwise, in-
During his second year in the House, he wrote—himself, with no staff assistance—a bill embodying the old People’s Party dream of intensified government regulation of railroads, by giving the government authority over the issuance of new securities by the railroads. Happening, by chance, to see the bill, Louis D. Brandeis, then one of President
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At the close of Russell’s 1938 speech against lynching legislation, Borah of Idaho walked over to him and congratulated him—and then took the floor himself to echo Russell’s argument that the bill was a violation of states’ rights. (Whereupon Russell rose in his turn to say, “The people of the South will ever revere the name of William E. Borah.”)
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