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...were apt to like it very much. One of these was the discerning President of Cornell, Dr. Livingston Farrand, who spent each Friday evening with TIME and "was never disappointed." Colonel E. M. House found that TIME "filled a long-felt need." Newton D. Baker "read every issue." Senator Borah found it "excellent-brief, brilliant, up-to-the-hour...
...nests, he stood off an attack by 50 Germans, was shot four times, fainted, revived, faced a charge by eight more Germans, shot four of them dead, captured the others, ultimately returned to his lines with eleven prisoners. In 1939 he mailed his Congressional Medal to the late Senator Borah, explained that his WPA earnings were "not sufficient to support a Medal of Honor." The Governor of Idaho, his home State, quickly got him a $125-a-month job as a Statehouse policeman...
...Taylor toured the State 15 years ago with a tent show, playing hick dramas to hick audiences. But he boasts that he made better money campaigning for Senator in 1940 (when he won the Democratic nomination but lost the election to Republican John Thomas for the late, great William Borah's seat) than he ever did in show business...
...mild, professorial mug he was meek enough. His best friends said that for all his wondrous vocabulary, his skill at political infighting, his long labors for Australian labor, he lacked the guts and drive of a first-class leader. He was to Australian politics what William Edgar Borah, the late Thaddeus H. Caraway and other Senate gadflies were to the U.S.: a born oppositionist who talked a great government, but seemed to shy from the job of running...
This is the logical climax of all those earlier isolationist judgments that began with Senator Borah's dictum: "This is a phoney...