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...Idaho's U. S. Senator William Edgar Borah, 73, in Washington, from overwork; famed Physicist Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, 70, at Rochester, Minnesota's Mayo Clinic, † from a gall-bladder ailment; Commander Joel Thompson Boone, U.S.N. Medical Corps, at San Diego's Naval Hospital, from an abdominal operation; Ice Skater Jack Dunn in Hollywood, from a streptococcic throat infection ; New Jersey's Governor A. Harry Moore in his Little White House at Sea Girt, N. J., from intestinal influenza...
...Committee is Wyoming's hardworking Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, whose efforts to modernize the anti-trust laws endeared him to Franklin Roosevelt (and earned him sufferance for fighting the President's Supreme Court plan). Beside Chairman O'Mahoney will sit his antimonopolist colleague, Senator Borah of Idaho, and Utah's colorless, querulous old Senator King. The House members, besides Mr. Eicher, are fiery Hatton Sumners of Texas, sophisticated Brazilla Carroll Reece of Tennessee (Republican...
...bill to do precisely that is the joint pet project of Senators O'Mahoney and Borah. Regardless of what else may result from the inquiry, their bill's eventual passage by Congress seems sure. But, as astute Columnist Raymond Clapper last week observed: "His struggle will not be to get the measure through, but to prevent some of the extreme New Dealers from loading it with more executive discretionary power than he wishes to allow...
...resolution for a $500,000 monopoly study by a committee of six Congressmen, six members of Government executive agencies. Named chairman of the committee was Wyoming's trust-busting Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, named a member was Idaho's trust-busting Senator William Edgar Borah, who declared: "I venture the belief that the committee is not proposing any witch-hunting program...
...Yale University Press published a book of his called The Folklore of Capitalism. In it he said of the anti-trust laws that their actual result "was to promote the growth of industrial organizations by deflecting the attack on them into purely moral and ceremonial channels. . . . Men like Senator Borah founded political careers on the continuance of such crusades, which were entirely futile but enormously picturesque, and which paid big dividends in terms of personal prestige." Senator Borah was on the Senate Committee which three months ago approved Thurman Arnold's appointment as Assistant Attorney General in charge...