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...towering apparition of the 1928 presidential campaign was the Equalization Fee for Farm Relief. Urged by Senator Borah and other Insurgent Republicans, it was decried by regular Republicans as an economic horror. Under it, the U. S. would have bought surplus wheat from farmers at market prices less a fixed fee, shipped the wheat abroad to sell for what it would bring. The Government's losses on the transaction would have been "equalized" in part by the farmers...
...with the help of the blundering Work, the undercover Mann, the flaming Willebrandt, the thundering Borah, the uprighteous Hughes. With upturned eyes he ignored the tempestuous issue of Religion breaking at his feet. On Prohibition he said nothing. He preached a gospel of "American individualism," promised a "job for every man," grew rhapsodic over "the home," vowed that only his election could perpetuate Republican prosperity. One might have thought he was running against thin air for all the notice he took of the energetic, loud-speaking, issue-raising, far-traveling Brown Derby. His cautious, banal campaign was unsatisfying to those...
...part of Farm Relief, the Senate wanted an export debenture. Bold and self-confident, President Hoover scotched this subsidy plan, won much public applause. He, said his friends, would show the Senate who was master. Nevertheless, that first victory cost President Hoover the friendship and support of Senator Borah and the Insurgents. A breach in the G. O. P. was then opened that gapes wider than ever today...
...fellow-Pittsburgher. With shoulders humped, intense voice rasping, Senator Reed hammered away. But as he expected, his words changed not a single ballot. By the impressive vote of 72-10-12 the Senate passed H. R. 17054. Not one Democrat voted against it. The twelve anti-Bonus Republicans were: Borah, Fess, Goff, Hastings, Hebert, Metcalf, Morrow, Moses, Phipps, Reed, Smoot, Walcott...
Nonetheless Senator Gillett, as chairman of a subcommittee of the Senate's Judiciary Committee, listened to Mrs. Sanger and a squad of supporters. Then he listened to her opponents. Assisting him was Senator Sam Gilbert Bratton, 42, of New Mexico. Senator William Edgar Borah. 65. of Idaho, member of the subcommittee, stayed away. Senators' wives crowded the hearing room...