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...were a good many Moscows, Odessas, Petersburgs established throughout the country: a Delaware seaport changed its name to Odessa in the hope of bolstering its trade (and promptly became a ghost town). Last week in Moscow, Idaho, seat of the State University, proposals for a new name included: 1) Borah, 2) Tat-Kin-Mah, 3) Paradise, 4) Cow. Meantime Mayor Henry Hansen sent off $176.46 for Finnish Relief, wrote that Moscow citizens wanted Finns to know that not all Muscovites were against them...
...money to Mrs. Bolton will be $10,000 tendered her by an act of Congress, "to supply urgent deficiencies." Congress appropriated a like sum to each of six other widows of Congressmen, including Mrs. William E. Borah (see p. 38). The Act, passed by both Houses last week, awaited the signature of the President. Like her husband, whose 1938 campaign expenditures came to $120.94, Mrs. Bolton refuses to spend any more to get elected than the price of an evening...
When the late Senator William E. Borah of Idaho gave up riding seven years ago, Washingtonians remarked: "Poor Borah, he can't afford a horse any longer." When he got a whopping bill for a prostate-gland operation, fellow Senators went to the doctor and got the bill halved. Surprised was the capital to learn that the Lion of Idaho had left $207,000 ($50,000 of it in thousand-dollar bills, $157,000 in bonds). Most surprised was Widow Mamie McConnell ("Little") Borah, who will not have to give up their Connecticut Avenue apartment...
Appointed by Governor Bottolfsen to succeed Idaho's Borah (for eleven months) was solid, taciturn 66-year-old John W. Thomas, banker, Republican wheelhorse, U. S. Senator from 1928 through 1932, when New Dealing James P. Pope defeated...