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William E. Borah was the last Idaho Senator with the concern, ability, and security to act for the national interests as he saw it, regardless of how his constituents would react. The result of the 1962 election indicate that Church can probably stay in the Senate as long as he wants. How far he will follow the Borah example is still an open question...
...most proponents of reform agree that the present structure carries the progressive principle too far. While Congress was shaping the constitutional amendment authorizing an income tax, opponents warned that once the floodgate was opened the top rate might some day reach 50% or even higher. Idaho's William E. Borah, a great Senate champion of the amendment, was outraged at the suggestion, complained that it insulted his "sense of fairness, of justice." After the 16th Amendment went into effect in 1913, the top rate was set at 7%. By 1932 it had reached 25%. Then in 1932, beset...
...Coach Borah says that more eminent institutions of learning shop for tramp athletes, but put up a pious front, whereas he comes right out in the open. There is something to that ... If his methods catch on, we should not be surprised if other institutions of higher learning follow suit. One can imagine Yale appealing in the following terms...
Nobody could say whether the editorial or the ad turned the trick, but at week's end Coach Borah, 30, an alumnus of Colorado A & M, was getting telegrams and phone calls by the hundreds. "All I hoped to get was one or two players at the most," said he. "Instead, I have received letters signed by kids from every state in the country. I guess they expected to get a free ride right down the line...
...Grandnephew of Idaho's late, great Senator William Borah...