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...Chief Executive spent an active week acquainting himself with the devices and desires of the Cabinet, the legislators and many minor executives. He re-examined his decision against a special session of Congress (see THE CONGRESS). He heard Senator Borah of Idaho on the subject of the onion tariff and Representative Dan A. Sutherland of Alaska on the subject of salmon being disturbed by earthquakes. General John H. Russell, High Commissioner to Haiti, paid respects before returning to his post. Governor General M. L. Walker of the Panama Canal Zone conferred for a half-hour. They were...
...Senator Borah of Idaho called on Mr. Hoover in Washington and invited him, in the name of Governor H. C. Baldridge and other Republican Idahosts, to go to their state next month and hunt wild animals. Senator Borah promised "cougar, elk, moose, mountain goats, deer, bears or eight delegates. It is really a wonderful country." Mr. Hoover declared he would gladly hunt in Idaho...
...Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg last week received a letter from Senator William Edgar Borah, who had heard that the proposed new French borrowings in the U. S. would be 100 millions at 6%. Mr. Borah, chairman of the foreign relations committee of the U. S. Senate, recalled that the last U. S. offer to adjust the French debt was to accept fifty cents on the dollar and 1¼% interest. This offer France refused as oppressive, unjust. Said Mr. Borah: "The disparity between the two propositions seems worthy of consideration. Is the American taxpayer being swindled...
William Edgar Borah, about to change horses, sought a home for Jester, his old mount, aged 14. The new horse was a bay hunter, aged 3, from Virginia. Cautioned about riding it, Senator Borah said: "Well, I haven't had any operation so I am at a better advantage than Will Rogers...
Friends bowed, more and less impressively, for Charles Evans Hughes, Nicholas Longworth,? Simeon D. Fess, Arthur Capper, William Edgar Borah, George William Norris, Herbert Spencer Hadley, James E. Watson, Hiram Warren Johnson, Frank Bartlette Willis and many another...