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...lobbyites who glanced up at them as they entered the hotel, and the nimble-witted telephone girl who placed their after-dinner calls, recognized scarcely a face. James J. Walker, the mayor, they recognized. But he was only a guest. And deep-jowled Irvin S. Cobb, fat-jowled Senator Borah, curly-wolf Judge Landis, smartly tailored Speaker Nicholas Longworth, well-oiled little Roger Wolff Kahn (jazzy son of opera-patron Otto H. Kahn)-were only guests. The company itself was as anonymous as a banquet of the Boot and Shoe Retailers' Association...
...wait for the dollars to pour in. In Paris a lively bootlegging trade has begun by which a divaree may be secured in three weeks for as little as 1,000 dollars plus passage and wine costs'. Worst of all is the possibility that such men as Senator Borah may effect a renewal of relations with Russia, where divorce is only a matter of minutes, and does not even require proofs of dementia praecox, chronic alcoholism, or sadism. The Soviet might almost stabilize the trouble on the proceeds...
Senator William E. Borah of Idaho: "Last week I returned $2,500 of my annual salary to the U. S. Treasury. I have been doing so since 1925 when Congress increased the pay of Senators and Representatives from $7,500 to $10,000, and I shall continue to do so until my term expires in 1931. I do not believe that $10,000 is an exorbitant salary, but said I: 'I went before the people of my state and asked them to elect me to a position paying $7,500 a year. They elected...
This discrepancy could not be ignored, and Republican news organs therefore poked much fun at the indiscreetly Latin conclusion of the Mexican President's letter to Senator Borah...
Their purport was that Mr. Borah had asked Se&241;or Calles "what per cent of the oil lands "held by U. S. citizens in Mexico had been submitted by their owners to the requirements of the confiscatory Mexican law (TIME, Feb. 1). Se&241;or Calles replied "6%," whereas Secretary of State Kellogg has said...