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...Borah v. Hoover. One thing President Hoover definitely did hear: a statement by an indiscreet newsman to the effect that Senator Borah, following a White House visit fortnight ago, had told reporters that he had informed President Hoover that 17 U. S. District Attorneys should be promptly dismissed and that the President had replied that five were already out. President Hoover wrote Senator Borah a letter. Senator Borah replied. What the letters said was closely guarded, though it was Secretary George Akerson at the White House who revealed the exchange. Best guess as to their contents: President Hoover asked Senator...
Willebrandt v. Hoover? On Capitol Hill, Senator Borah busied himself collecting data to support his charge against the Prohibition enforcement personnel "from top to bottom." Audible at the White House was a rumor that none other than Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, with a grudge against the Department of Justice and Attorney-General Mitchell, was supplying Senator Borah with his evidence for further assaults upon the Hoover administration's Dry record...
Since Senator Borah is undoubtedly a power, indeed one of the most potent powers that got President Hoover elected, something had to be done and done quickly. So Attorney-General Mitchell issued orders to each & every district attorney, forbidding them to dismiss any liquor cases on court dockets without explicit permission from the Department of Justice...
...Moscow, appealed personally, unofficially to the Soviet Government for help for U. S. Flyer Carl Ben Eielson, lost along the coast of Siberia, spurred Alaska's acting Governor Karl Theile to send frantic appeals to two Soviet ships in Siberian waters. Russians were aware that already blunt Senator Borah had cabled for aid directly to Soviet Acting Foreign Minister Litvinov...
Senator William Edgar Borah, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and a great Soviet protagonist, acted more directly. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Assistant Attorney-General, now Washington attorney for The Aviation Corp. which owns Alaskan Airways, begged him to intercede. He cabled to Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs at Moscow. At once the Russians, eager to repeat their glory of rescuing the wrecked Italia crew, ordered out three planes stationed within flying distance of Eielson's disappearance. They also telegraphed and radioed Siberian outposts to send out sledge parties...