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Returns showed three other famed Republicans saving their political skins without much to spare. Borah in Idaho and McNary in Oregon, although their States went to Roosevelt, although each faced able campaigners, both pulled through. In Kansas, Arthur Capper, believed to be an easy victor, pulled through...
...swankest smart-shops in Manhattan is Saks Fifth Avenue. Its idea of an advertising superlative is to describe a dress, corset, necktie or suitcase as "very Saks Fifth Avenue." Astonished, therefore, were New Yorkers to read last week that Saks Fifth Avenue was about to branch to William Edgar Borah's potato paradise of Idaho. Name of the town: Ketchum...
...bankers were apparently aware of this attitude. Furthermore, while Franklin D. Roosevelt led all the rest on a list of men whose views on finance met with public approval, no banker showed up in the list until it had passed down through Ogden Mills, Senator Glass, Senator Borah, Alf Landon, Herbert Hoover, Henry Ford, William L. Lemke, Dr. Townsend, Father Coughlin, Norman Thomas...
...Magnus Johnson, onetime (1923-25) U. S. Senator from Minnesota, at Litchfield, with pneumonia; Governor Charles Ben Ross of Idaho, Democratic rival of William Edgar Borah for the U. S. Senate, at Boise with neuritis; Senator William Gibbs McAdoo of California, at Santa Barbara with a carbuncle. Snapped he into a radio microphone at his bedside: "The party of Lincoln ... is nothing more than a racketeering gang led by millionaire privilege seekers and tax evaders, with a following of inflammatory demagogs and Democratic renegades in the pay of the Liberty League...
Last week, girding himself for the toughest fight in his political career against "Cowboy Ben" Ross, Senator Borah turned up at Boise to say of his loyal constituency with unprecedented warmth and familiarity: "I do not believe any public man ever owed the debt of gratitude to the people whom he was seeking to serve that I owe to the people of Idaho. After 30 years of service and under rather involved circumstances, they have given anew their assurance of confidence. I prize this above all things that could come to me in the way of compensation...