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...Majority Leader Joe Robinson attempt to hitch them to the First Deficiency (Relief) Bill. Tired, ailing Senator Fletcher made a long, earnest plea for the Canal, and his colleagues, largely out of affection for the man who was senior in service to all of them except Idaho's Borah and senior in age to all except Virginia's Glass, voted a conditional $10,000,000 for the Florida ditch, though rejecting the Maine...
...William Edgar Borah is U. S. Senator for (1 Utah, 2 Wyoming, 3 Illinois, 4 Idaho, 5 Montana...
...Republican platform was written between the deep sea and Senator Borah. The deep sea was Lake Erie and Senator Borah was the man who, as he left the Republican convention last week, announced: "I never had any illusion that I would become the Presidential nominee of this convention. But there were some important and timely questions which I felt should come before the country . . . and I reached the conclusion that this could be most likely attained if I became a candidate...
Between Senator Borah and the deep sea was William Allen White, the Landon representative on the Resolutions Committee. The Landonites wished to placate Mr. Borah, lest he somehow upset their well-laid nomination plans. Well did they know how to proceed. Since Senator Borah, for all his noble traits of character, would never willingly become a member of the Twelve Apostles or of any group larger than one, he could be won to Landon only by giving him some unique privilege. That privilege was to speak with ultimate authority on those planks which most appealed...
Accordingly, Senator Borah was allowed to write the anti-League of Nations and antimonopoly planks (although the two sharpest paragraphs of his monopoly plank were cut out in the final version). Two other planks he was allowed to veto: any reference to the gold standard in the money plank and any suggestion of a constitutional amendment to authorize State control of minimum wages. William Allen White had also to make concessions to various non-Landon members of the platform Committee. Thus with Editor White functioning as a diplomat rather than as a liberal, Landon views on the platform were largely...