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...Take back your gold!" was the customary rebuff given the villain of old-time melodrama when he tried to use his ill-gotten gains for improper ends, and if Senator Borah's plan succeeds he will be able to clear the name of the Republican party by applying the same method to Harry F. Sinclair, whose contributions to the 1920 campaign fund of the party have been discovered to be not entirely from altruistic motives. But a necessary accompaniment to such a speech is the gold itself, and unhappily the Republicans have long ago seen the last of it disappear...
...Dear Senator Borah...
...Reed also said to Senator Borah: "You have diverted attention from the vastly more important questions upon which that issue [Prohibition enforcement] rests. You have also in a measure diverted attention from the fact that you yourself are a potential candidate . . . from the equally evident fact that your championship of this particular issue puts you on a favorable position to have its organized friends . . . stampede the convention to you in the event of a deadlock...
...Senator Borah, bearlike friend of logic, answered plainly, boldly...
...Hoover. Candidate Hoover answered the Borah questionnaire on Prohibition by calling the latter "a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose" which he does not favor repealing and which, "of course," he stands for enforcing vigorously, sincerely. "It must be worked out constructively," said Candidate Hoover, leaving public information about where it was. Clarence Darrow, cynic lawyer, tried to illuminate by announcing, in Cincinnati: "I don't think Hoover is any drier than I am. I ought to know. I have had a drink with...