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...public life: In his one big political battle of the year, over the Supreme Court, he was worsted. Had any one man been primarily responsible for that defeat, he would be a towering figure of politics, but in fact-while many figures, including Senators Wheeler of Montana, Borah of Idaho, Burke of Nebraska and Vice President Garner, contributed in one way and another-Franklin Roosevelt largely wrought his own defeat by antagonizing opinion in Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Man & Wife of the Year | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...stage show with Jane Froman, Stoopnagle and Bud, Bob Ripa, and Borah Minevitch's Harmonica Rascals is excellent...

Author: By V. F., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 11/16/1937 | See Source »

This was hardly news to anyone, for if Hugo Black had never joined the Klan he would obviously have denied doing so a month ago. It could hardly have been news to Franklin Roosevelt or any member of the Senate, for Senator Borah said last week: "Justice Black stated the matter of his relationship with the Klan as I understood it to be when I spoke on the subject in the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Living Room Chat | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...fight the growing conflagration on the other side. Only animals in the Jacobs barns were seven saddle horses, valued at from $1,000 to $3,000 each, including a five-gaited, Kentucky-bred stallion named Lady's Man which was a favorite mount of Senator William E. Borah. Bystanders appealed for axes to help get the horses out. The firemen, aware that insurance on their equipment was void if the equipment was damaged outside Boise, quick-wittedly refused. While the horses burned to death in screeching agony, Boise's firemen played their hose on a telegraph pole across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDAHO: Law Observance | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...uniformed force "drilled in the goose step and . . . ready for any emergency," and that the policies of the Bund weeklies duplicate those of the Hitler-controlled press. No direct evidence connected the Bund with the German Government but Editor Ruppel got a rise out of old Senator William E. Borah, who bumbled about a Congressional investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Chicago Thorn | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

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