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...lame duck" sessions, 5 ) Large road-building appropriations. Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa last week said he would favor a special session of the 72nd Congress unless all these measures were passed. Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota last week ex pressed similar views. Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah cryptically, characteristically telegraphed: I DO NOT FAVOR ANY DELAY FOR THE SAKE OF DELAY BUT I HOPE NEVERTHELESS TO SEE SOMETHING DONE ON THE FARM QUESTION He later added : "I do not understand why all this excitement about a supposed filibuster; I do not propose to join...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Attempt at Truce | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

Idaho. The election of a Democratic Governor in the domain of Senator William Edgar Borah, independent Republican, was in the nature of a reaction under laboratory conditions ? unadorned evidence of the country's trend. The reagent's name: Ben Ross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Travels with a Donkey | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...office, where he likes to put his feet on his desk, drawl out his political discouragement at men and affairs. Driving his Willys-Knight motorcar is a diversion. Not interested in Society or socialite sport he goes to bed regularly at 10 p.m., sees his principal friends-Senators Borah, Johnson, Brookhart, LaFollette-mostly at the Capitol. He likes to listen to radio reports of baseball games, to smoke numerous cigars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 3, 1930 | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...Senator Borah, another close friend of Alice Longworth, has said that if Ruth McCormick is elected he will vote to unseat her because of her excessive campaign expenditures. Mrs. Longworth may now present her real gifts. She may use her political influence, of which the country has for so long heard so much. She may soften this decision of the frugal gentleman from Idaho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Countess v. Princess | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

...Senator Borah is also a close friend of Mrs. Ruth McCormick's. They are all close friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Countess v. Princess | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

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