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...Johnson. The Senator from California last week watched the rapid and vigorous expansion of his boom under the direction of his able and active manager, Frank H. Hitchcock. Johnson has not the organization backing of Coolidge, and he has alienated some Progressives who formerly supported him, such as Borah and Norris, by being "conveniently absent" from the Senate when the attempt was made to oust Newberry, and by voting for the Fordney-McCumber tariff. Nevertheless his campaign is professional, well-financed, well-organized -and to be reckoned with...
After the close eighth ballot and an almost equally close ninth, Mr. Bruce had apparently averted the greatest danger. The insurgents began experimenting with various progressive candidates. Mr. Couzens gained favor and secured the votes of Borah, Gooding, Norbeck, Jones. Mr. Cummins also voted (for the first time) for Mr. Couzens, the object being to prevent a sudden shift of the insurgents from naming Smith. With a fifth day of balloting in sight the 'deadlock continued...
When Senator Borah heard of the President's action he ejaculated: "I am delighted that the President of the United States has discovered the First Amendment of the Constitution...
...parties, has been viewed as little more than a movement of protest. It has developed no single constructive issue which could be used as a nucleus for a third party; it calls for the highly unnatural union of the Wisconsin-Minnesota group, itself by no means homogeneous, and Borah and Johnson...
...first official entertainment- "the Cabinet dinner." There were 50 guests, including all members of the Cabinet and their wives, excepting Mrs. Daugherty and Mrs. Davis. Secretary Mellon was accompanied by his daughter Ailsa. In addition there were present Senator Cummins, Senator Lodge, Senator and Mrs. Warren, Senator and Mrs. Borah, Senator Curtis, Senator and Mrs. Wadsworth, Senator David I. Walsh, Representative and Mrs. Madden, Representative and Mrs. Longworth, Representative and Mrs. Frothingham, Governor and Mrs. Cox of Massachusetts, Ambassador-Designate to Great Britain and Mrs. Kellogg, Secretary Slemp...