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...already spent $5,400,000 of relief funds and which truck and fruit farmers fear may turn lower Florida into a semidesert (TIME, Feb. 17). The old gentleman was Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, 77, who has been in the Senate longer than any other member, except Idaho's Borah and South Carolina's Smith...
Said the sales manager: "That is right." Finally the squabble was brought to a temporary intermission by the unanimous passage by the Senate of a resolution introduced by Senator Borah directing the Federal Communications Commission to supply a detailed report of all its activities in investigating messages...
...purpose was to lobby for anti-chain-store legislation, particularly the so-called Robinson-Patman Bill, one of a score of measures introduced in this session of Congress with the avowed intention of undercutting the advantages of large-scale merchandising. The "little businessmen" were received with vociferous sympathy. Senator Borah marked the occasion by introducing still another bill intended to forbid selling more cheaply to large buyers than to small ones. Texas' Representative Patman cried: "You are the first victims of monopoly." Said Maryland's Senator Tydings: "Small business is being crushed to the wall in a deliberate...
...their first choice cannot be nominated. As second choice on the Taft ticket was named Charles R. Frederickson, onetime president of the Ohio Manufacturers Association. Favorite-Son Taft's job will be to sit tight, become a rallying point around which Ohioans can gather to save Ohio from Borah...
Meantime Senator Borah's Ohio managers were scurrying around to find a second-choice man for the Borah ticket. They dug up Frank E. Gannett, publisher of a chain of 19 newspapers in New York and neighboring states, for 25 years a friend of Franklin Roosevelt, for six months (until after NRA and AAA) a friend of the New Deal. Last week Publisher Gannett, sunning himself in Miami, was glad to run as second choice for Senator Borah in Ohio in order to save the Supreme Court from Franklin Roosevelt. Said he: "It would mean a great sacrifice...