Word: borah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what a rent the envious Borah made...
...Notice was given of opening the polls five minutes beforehand. The 400 voters were assembled in a line and when they had voted . . . polls were closed." Hot-collared Novelist Sinclair Lewis, charging General Butler with "conspiracy to murder the men unjustly declared bandits," wrote a loud letter to Senator Borah of the Foreign Relations Committee, demanding an inquiry. General Butler blandly replied to Novelist Lewis that he had told the committee all that "and a great deal more...
This reasoning brought a loud rumble of protest from the square jaw of Hon. William Edgar Borah, Chairman of the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...Carroll who conducted Queen Marie of Rumania on her U. S. tour. Describing that trip, he brought a blush to the Senator's cheek when he remarked: "Senator Borah, you'll be interested in this as showing what a marvelous woman this girl was." At his first meeting with the Queen...
...examined another potent Eastern banker, Fred I. Kent, director of Bankers Trust Co. of Manhattan. In a public speech Banker Kent had blamed the Senate and the Democratic-Insurgent Republican coalition for the stockmarket break. The four members of that coalition on the Lobby Committee (Caraway, Walsh, Elaine. Borah) made for Banker Kent in rough-and-tumble fashion...