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Idaho's Borah growled that he had got just two letters, both commending his vote for the "prevailing wage" amendment. Father of the fracas, Nevada's portly Pat McCarran, told reporters that of the 200 communications he had received, all save one were favorable...
Washington, March 8--Senator William E. Borah (R) Idaho, charged late today that the government was clubbing the small man out of existence as the administration warned the Senate Finance Committee that delay in revising the NIRA was threatening recovery...
...same time, Borah surprised his colleagues by asserting that President Roosevelt and former NRA administrator Hugh S. Johnson had disagreed sharply over methods of protecting the little man under the new deal...
Some 30,000 Roman Catholics overflowed Philadelphia's Convention Hall last Sunday to hear Michael Cardinal Dougherty & others belabor the Government of Mexico for its mistreatment of their Church. Meanwhile other Catholics zealously stirred the still cold pot of a Congressional investigation of Mexican "religious persecutions" which Senator Borah had put on the fire in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
That thought had also occurred to Senator William Edgar Borah whose first Government job was as a criminal prosecutor. Convinced that the crime was "only partly cleared up," he told Washington newshawks: "I have always believed that this crime was consummated through someone in the house cooperating with someone outside the house. ... I have strong convictions about the matter...