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Vice President & Mrs. John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner last week dined at the White House (he in white tie & tails). Contrary to report, Cactus Jack likes the party that the President gives him every year. He attended in 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938. Top members of Congress (Borah, Sheppard, McNary, Sabath, Rayburn, Boland, etc. etc.) were there. But local chit-chat artists were truly swamped two nights later when the Roosevelts entertained the 76th Congress, swamped by the new faces presented and their political implications. At the Congressional Reception, Jim Farley held court in a receiving line...
...Guilty," was the answer. Then Republican Senator-Borah of Idaho asked whether Redd had been authorized to represent these groups. He was answered with an assured "I appointed myself a committee of one to represent them...
Pronounced AAAttacker William Edgar Borah: "The idea of production control is dead...
...that he was interested in making bottles and wished the whole patent muddle could be avoided. "A patent," said he, "is not a grant of right to use the thing, it is only a grant to exclude other people from using the same thing." Pressed by Senator William E. Borah to admit that Hartford-Empire in effect fixed milk bottle prices, Mr. Levis only admitted that certain companies, including his own, "led" prices...
Idaho is represented in the Senate by Democrat James Pinckney Pope and by Republican William Edgar Borah, one the Senate's warmest advocate of international cooperation, the other its greatest Isolationist. When hard-hitting Representative D. Worth Clark entered the Democratic primaries against Senator Pope, whom he charged with being a New Deal yesman, confident New Dealers overlooked one fact-that this year Idaho's election law had been changed to permit voters to enter either primary without regard to previous party affiliation. Evidently many a Borah Isolationist took the opportunity to vote against Internationalist Pope. Representative Clark...