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...Cummins of Iowa, President pro tem, of the Senate, was the loser of the Chairmanship. Mr. Cummins, who came to Congress in 1908 as a radical and foe of the railways, who fought side by side with LaFollette and Borah in the insurgent movement of yesteryear, was defeated by the votes of his former comrades. Mr. LaFollette swung his radical group into the Democratic column, carrying with him three other Republicans, Brookhart, Ladd and Frazier, and the two Farmer-Laborites, Shipstead and Magnus Johnson. Bruce of Maryland, lone Democrat, clung to Cummins to the last. The final vote was : Smith...
...refusal of the Administration to recognize the Soviet regime in Russia. He read portions of a 30,000 word document to show that every important official of the Soviet Government, except Tchichernin is a member of the Communist Party, which engages in revolutionary propaganda in this country. Senator Borah took up the cudgels in defense of the Soviet Government, declaring that the time had come for recognition, and asserting that there was ample precedent for recognizing Russia since we had recognized the revolutionary government of France in the 18th Century...
...Domestic Objections: A number of Senators, notably Senator Borah of Idaho, asserted that the editorial in question was not conclusive evidence. They pointed out that the Third Internationale is a body with membership from over 50 nations, although its seat is in Moscow, and that even if it be chiefly supported by the Communist Party, that Party is not the Russian Government. Mr. Borah went on to point out that neither Lenin nor Trotsky attended the meeting of the Third Internationale held immediately after the Izvestia, editorial was published...
Ball, Dela. Borah, Ida. Cameron, Ariz. Edge, N. J. Ernst, Ky. Fernald, Me. Grene, Vt. Keyes, N. H. McKinley, 111. Moses, N. H. Pepper, Pa. Phipps, Colo. Reed, Pa. Smoot, Utah Sterling, S. D. Wadsworth, N. Y. Warren, Wyo. Weller, Md. Howell...
...conducting a straw-vote-for-President among the women of the country. With a count of 81,303 ballots, President Coolidge led with 52,274 votes. Next came McAdoo with 6,611 votes. And after him, in order, Ford, Hughes, Wilson, Hoover, Underwood, Hiram Johnson, Pinchot, La Follette, Borah, Lowden, W. J. Bryan, John W. Davis, Ralston, Glass, Alfred E. Smith, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mellon. Tied for last place (with one vote each) were Ring Lardner and John Davison Rockefeller...