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Washington, March 20--The steel code tends to climinate small operators and discriminate against some areas, the Federal Trade Commission reported to Congress today in response to a resolution by Senator Borah, (R) Idaho, asking an investigation of the industry...
...chorus of condemnation, seized the bill as a partisan issue. Senator McNary cried out that it was another Article X of the League of Nations. House Leader Snell called it "the most outrageous demand for authority ever voiced by any Executive in the history of this country." Even Senator Borah found himself shoulder to shoulder with Old Guardsmen when he declared that the bill was a demand that the Senate give up its treaty-making powers...
...Senator Borah's variant of this hoary statistic: 4% of the people control 95% of the wealth...
...roll was called the Senators strode in, grim and determined. Senator Hugo Black, the head of the committee investigating air mail contracts, sat in the front row. Other front seats were taken by other legal lights of the Senate-Lawyers King of Utah, McCarran of Nevada, Robinson of Arkansas, Borah of Idaho, Johnson of California. McNary of Oregon, Logan of Kentucky, Wagner of New York, Barkley of Kentucky, Norris of Nebraska, Hastings of Delaware. Most of them at one time or another had sat on State or Federal benches. For a moment they sat in solemn silence while a clerk...
...just-published sixth report of the U. S. Geographic Board, Idaho's highest mountain, Hyndman Peak (12,655 ft.), was officially christened Borah Peak in honor of the State's longtime (since 1907) Senator...