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...days later, with Boise's depot chimes echoing through the gloomy haze of a heavy snowfall, all that was mortal of William E. Borah, late a U. S. Senator, was committed to the Idaho earth...
...read his mail and inquired about a Negro woman who had asked him to get her a job. He requested his young clerk, Charles Corker, to pick him up in the park around 4:30 and motor him home. "Are you sure you have the time?" twice asked Borah of Idaho, mindful that the stripling had pre-law classes to attend. Reassured, overcoated (without the blanket), the Senator trudged out of the office, along the echoing basement corridor, across Delaware Avenue to the park. His frail frame was stooped. His mane, still growing grandly down to his collar, was greying...
Next morning, a child's voice on the office telephone asked how Senator Borah was. A secretary wanted to know who was calling. "Oh," said the voice, "I'm just a little girl that talks to him in the park...
...additional detail, indicating that the captive Christian Fronters were "awful" shots and mere blustering braggarts. Michigan's squat, swart Congressman Frank Hook tried to hook Red-daubing Martin Dies to people who were friendly to the Front, failed to excite a Congress in mourning for veteran Senator Borah (see above...
WASHINGTON -- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will begin immediate consideration of Japanese embargo measures when it meets Wednesday, Chairman Key Pittman, D., Novada, said tonight on his return from Son. William E. Borah's funeral at Boise, Idaho...