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...Nelson T. Johnson (Far East); 4) Francis White (Latin America). Among veteran Washington correspondents the consensus is: 1) The President and the Secretary of State are "close friends," but not quite "intimate friends"; 2) Relations are close and cordial between Mr. Kellogg and Messrs. Morrow, Houghton, Hughes; 3) Senator Borah probably prefers Mr. Kellogg to Mr. Hughes, since the Senator called seldom at the State Department in the days of Secretary Hughes, calls often...
...Among other committee members: William H. Allen, Jane Addams, Senator William E. Borah, Bruce Barton, Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, Senator Carter Glass, William G. McAdoo, Rabbi Stephen S, Wise...
...should do it. The President, in his Message to Congress this month, said: "Private enterprise can very well fill this field." Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, the Administration's spokesman, offered an amendment making private development of the power phase mandatory. The amendment was beaten, 53 to 24. Senator Borah offered an amendment making power development by the Government mandatory, but Senator Johnson persuaded him to withdraw it because it would invite a veto. The Senate finally left the matter optional with the Secretary of the Interior...
President Coolidge, Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, Democratic firebrand, Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, Republican man-of-all-words, spoke in the same room in Washington, D. C., one night last week. Some 150 newsmen heard them. Yet not a word of what they said appeared in the public prints. It was the annual winter dinner of the Gridiron Club; at such a function the club beards itself with the phrase, "reporters are never present...
...Senator "Al" Smith of New York would without doubt furnish scenes and situations-and perhaps some legislation-remarkable in his own day, memorable for political prosperity. ¶ S. Rurok, Manhattan impresario, offered the President-Reject $50,000 for ten debates on Prohibition against famed prohibiters, beginning (perhaps) with Senator Borah at Madison Square Garden...