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Senator William Edgar Borah, Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee was an early proponent of the concept of a treaty "outlawing war." Having lectured on the topic years before Secretary Kellogg took it up, he recently approved the present draft, saying: "The Multilateral anti-war Treaty, if signed this summer, will have right of way in the Senate next winter. ... I look for no serious fight against its ratification...
...that you have told us just how wet Al Smith is, let us hear just how dry Herbert Hoover is. In Hoover's answer to Borah's questionnaire there seems to be a groping for vagueness. I wonder if Hoover has always held to the teachings of his Quaker fathers' during all these years with the British...
Following Secretary Hoover's answer to the Borah questionnaire, Lawyer Clarence Darrow said: "I don't think Hoover is any drier than I am. I ought to know. I have had a drink with him" (TIME, March 5). Last week, questions were submitted asking Nominee Hoover to confirm or deny the Darrow statement and also to record: 1) whether Mr. Hoover has taken a drink since Prohibition; 2) whether Mr. Hoover would take a drink now if assured the liquor was legally possessed. Nominee Hoover's secretary, chubby George Akerson, refused to transmit the questions...
...Glendale High School in southern California, who defeated all comers in the 100-metre trials and four times equalled the Olympic record (10⅝ seconds). Charles Paddock, whose amateur status is being investigated, was too slow to qualify in the 100-metre dash, but he finished second to Charles Borah, also of California, in the 200-metre finals and made the team...
...revoked the segregation law." "There was one piece of sardonic humor in the events at the Republican Convention at Kansas City. I refer to that plank in the Republican platform in which they say, 'We stand for honesty in Government.' Now, why bring that up?" "Senator Borah wants to refund the wages of sin, but how in hell does Borah know they ain't gonna steal no more?" "Hays improved on Patrick Henry. He strikes an attitude, with hand on heart and says, 'Give me Liberty Bonds or cash!": "The Republican party has done much...