Senator Borah's greatest influence and widest fame came in the decade farm,|Arms Conference. With that gesture began to emerge before foreign eyes as one of the powerful men of the world, Mr. Hoover gained Senator Borah's e|1928 support only by agreeing to a then definite programme of legislation which included the summons of a Special session of Congress in the spring of 1929. Senator Borah insisted best an that as an avenue to immediate agricultural relief'but broke with the of administration when Mr. Hoover permitted his Old Guard Congressional leaders to go beyond agricultural items in a tariff bill. Senator Borah's [denunciation was prompt, bitter and Gnal. So great were his personal prestige and power that the State Department consulted him so con-that the idea preváiled abroad hat Senator Borah was in fact the "American Secretary of State.
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