Word: borah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brilliant idea-the only place in the world safe from being overheard. The treaty was mysteriously dropped through the letter slot at the Tribune, wrapped in a piece of Chinese silk (some say a kimono). It would have been treasonable to publish the treaty, but Hunt got Senator Borah to start reading it for the Congressional Record, and a minute later the presses started rolling...
...longingly of a Romney-Nixon ticket, or a Romney-Percy ticket, or Romney-Hatfield, or even Romney-Reagan. At the moment none of the prospective running mates would settle for the vice-presidential nomination. The impasse reminded one old hand of the time when Calvin Coolidge asked Senator William Borah if he would join him on the G.O.P. presidential ticket. "Which end?" snapped the stately Senator...
...bosses went too far, and such reformers as Wisconsin's Robert La Follette and Idaho's William Borah in 1911 forced the Senators to accept the 17th Amendment, providing for election of Senators by direct popular vote rather than state legislatures. The Senate was never the same again-nor was the presidency...
William E. Borah was the last Idaho Senator with the concern, ability, and security to act for the national interests as he saw it, regardless of how his constituents would react. The result of the 1962 election indicate that Church can probably stay in the Senate as long as he wants. How far he will follow the Borah example is still an open question...
...most proponents of reform agree that the present structure carries the progressive principle too far. While Congress was shaping the constitutional amendment authorizing an income tax, opponents warned that once the floodgate was opened the top rate might some day reach 50% or even higher. Idaho's William E. Borah, a great Senate champion of the amendment, was outraged at the suggestion, complained that it insulted his "sense of fairness, of justice." After the 16th Amendment went into effect in 1913, the top rate was set at 7%. By 1932 it had reached 25%. Then in 1932, beset...