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...tremendous. Finally, whether speaking for himself, or for some other candidate, he will be a powerful vote-getter. Judging the political situation as a whole, it is more important to follow the old wheel-horse's speeches and actions with great attention than it is to follow blindly Landon, Borah, Knox, or Vandenburg, or any other pastel-shaded "horse" of the Republican party...
...Governor Alfred M. Landon of Kansas thus opened his Topeka home to news cameramen. Last week pictures were taken of carved teakwood chairs and tables, Chinese paintings and embroideries, lacquered boxes, Oriental screens at No. 2101 Connecticut Ave., Washington. Next day the Press discovered that Senator William Edgar Borah was definitely, openly and finally a candidate for President...
Commenting on Senator Borah's entry in the Illinois primaries, Knox said, "The whole thing is a joke. Washburn (Robert M. Washburn of Massachusetts, Republican Senatorial nominee in 1934) is the man who put Borah into the Illinois race. We won't have any trouble winning that...
...should try to answer me. . . .* I was an 'Unhappy Warrior' to hear him read off a speech over which he stumbled so that I felt sure it was canned and did not come from the heart of the Joe Robinson that I have known." Borah in Brooklyn. Meanwhile in Brooklyn, a Republican performer who has for years been packing the U. S. Senate's galleries made another oblique bid for the Presidency. Well equipped for the role, with locks as long as Booth's, 70-year-old Hamlet Borah began with the candid remark...
Just how seriously Senator Borah's candidacy was to be taken became a question when his Ohio backers last week admitted that it would be useless to put his name in that State's primary. And from Washington onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot announced that he had advised Senator Borah "not to go into the fight for delegates" in Pennsylvania "for the reason that more money would be required than is available." "Kansas Coolidge." Managers of Governor Alfred Mossman Landon of Kansas now claim that their candidate will go to the Republican National Convention at Cleveland in June with...