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Facing his first stiff re-election fight in years, Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah turned up at the Parma, Idaho, Fall Festival, treated each & every Parma moppet to a merry-go-round ride...
...Sinclair's I, Governor of California, but wittier, the book presents an imaginative narrative beginning with Huey Long's election to the Presidency, concludes with his setting up his Cabinet, among whom were: Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Roosevelt; Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover; Secretary of State, William F. Borah; Secretary of War, Smedley D. Butler; Secretary of the Treasury, James Couzens; Attorney General, Frank Murphy...
...there was no stopping the tide. Already that morning Senator Borah had taken Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee firmly in hand, in three hours helped him draft a Neutrality Resolution with provision for a mandatory arms embargo. Called up the next day, it went through the Senate with a unanimous roar that left its sponsors blinking...
...Revenue Act of 1935, they found little to choose in the matter of revenue raising. The House bill was estimated to yield $255,000,000; the Senate bill $254,000,000. Compromising on most features, but junking completely the House's inheritance tax and the Senate's Borah and McCarran amendments, the conferees early this week reached agreements on a bill expected to enrich the Treasury by $250,000,000. Boosted sharply were individual income surtaxes, beginning at 31% on $50,000 and reaching 75% on amounts over $5,000,000. Corporation income taxes graded up from...
...last week made his first contribution to the political campaign of 1936. Rising in the Senate he announced his intention of putting something into the record "for posterity to read." For this honorable preservation he proposed no words of his own but a quotation with which he credited Senator Borah...