Word: borah
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with 253 1-2, while Roosevelt was eighth with 65. The other candidates trailed in the following order: Weeks, 105; Root, 103; Cummins, 85; Burton, 77 1-2; Fairbanks, 74 1-2; Sherman, 66; Knox, 36; Ford, 32; La Follette, 25; Taft, 14; DuPont, 12; Brumbaugh, 9; Willis, 4; Borah, 2; McCall...
...Senator Borah's unexpected desertion of the Republicans and his entry into the Progressive convention this morning was the subject of much comment in both camps. Senator Borah declared himself in favor of the Colonel, but pleaded for harmony, and said that the essential object was the preservation of the Republican party...
...Conn., June 2, 1916.--In a straw ballot presidential election held by the Yale News today, Theodore Roosevelt '80 received the highest number of votes with a total of 933. Wilson was second with 591, and Hughes third with 365. Root received 133, Bryan 4, Benson 3, Taft 2, Borah 1, Burton 1, Ford 1, Sherman 1, and Underwood...
Following is the result of the election: Theodore Roosevelt, 660 Woodrow Wilson, 591 Charles E. Hughes, 348 Elihu Root, 68 Allan L. Benson, 21 Samuel W. McCall, 14 John W. Weeks, 10 Henry Ford, 8 William E. Borah, 4 William Jennings Bryan, 3 Albert B. Cummins, 2 John Warren Fairbanks, 2 Lawrence Y. Sherman, 1 William Howard Taft, 1 Lewis D. Brandeis, 1 Philander C. Knox, 1 Oscar W. Underwood...
...Weeks boom into atmosphere charged with other enthusiasms. The members of the Chicago Club will find themselves in a water-tight Sherman compartment; Pennsylvania will find Penrose and Brumbaugh (both Harvard men, by the way) contending for laical honors; some may even reach the headwaters of the Missouri where Borah thunders or the Mississippi valley where Hadley,--the matinee idol of the last convention,--holds his afternoon performances. Here is an opportunity to keep one's ears open and come back charged with Forum material...