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...neither Reader Cook & wife nor Reader Leigh. On request of the White House (see p. 4) the "voice" of President Roosevelt will no longer be heard on "The March of TIME" or any other broadcast. The "voice," that of William Perry ("Bill") Adams will continue to speak for Senator Borah, President von Hindenburg, many another bigwig, many a lowly character in the news. "Bill" Adams, onetime professional baseballer, onetime stage actor and dramatic coach at Yale, turned to radio in 1925. For four years he was "Uncle Henry" on the old Collier's series...
...great U. S. statesmen who does not feel his position altered by the shift in his country's political balance is Idaho's Senator Borah, the straddler magnificent. Always he has been just Republican enough to bear the name but always he has been poised on the crux of great issues, waiting until lesser men have spent their arguments, to impart his Olympian conclusions. His last great cry was for an Honest Dollar. Now that the dollar has moved Leftward to 60?, his cry is for collecting the War debts, a notion that Calvin Coolidge used to play...
Politic and popular, Oregon's Charles Linza McNary prepared to call the first meeting of Republicans, both Progressives and regulars, since he succeeded to the minority leadership. Said he: "All Republicans look alike to me." At the last minute, this gathering was postponed. Idaho's ursine Borah, on the lookout for a saddle horse to replace crippled "Governor" and superannuated "Idaho," notified Oil Administrator Ickes that big petroleum producers were squeezing little ones, that while the oil code increased costs to producers $125,000,000 a year, $486,000,000 in price increases were being passed...
...Senator Borah says no alternative to the President's monetary policy has been presented. Well, perhaps not publicly. But the number of suggestions laid before President Roosevelt urging an entirely different course from that which be is pursuing would fill volumes...
Virtually all U. S. newsorgans approved the President's act of recognition last week, or at least did not oppose. Senator Borah, dean of Recognitionists, was so pleased that from Boise, Idaho he telegraphed congratulations to both President Roosevelt and Comrade Litvinoff...