Word: borah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this letter to be counted in," wrote upstate New York's potent Congressman James W. Wadsworth (see p. 18), whom Publisher Gannett helped turn out of the U. S. Senate in 1926. An interested if distant observer in Washington was Frank Gannett's friend William Edgar Borah of Idaho. Distinctly cool was Herbert Hoover in Manhattan. Coldly observant near by were most New York Republican politicos. They gave Frank Gannett small chance, nevertheless foresaw that by splitting the State delegation he could gravely harm New York's Candidate Tom Dewey at the G. O. P. convention this...
Beneath the outwardly smooth course of Anglo-American relations there runs a current of nagging hostility. The London Daily Express had this sarcastic bit to say on the death of Senator Borah: "We remember him as a biter critic of Britain. In this country he was always regarded as an extremist, but it must be remembered that all Americans shared his creed: America first." It would do no good to fan these smoldering embers, but The State Department can serve well the cause of keeping America at peace by insisting on the rights of neutrals. That these rights...
...Notable absentee: Idaho's Borah. Said he: "It's dangerous to listen to Roosevelt, because he could recite an example in algebra and make it interesting. When I want to know what he said I have to sit down and read it. Be assured I will read his speech...