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...Borah on Debts...
Last week the New York World-Telegram's energetic Ray Tucker sought out Idaho's Senator Borah at Boise, asked him his solution of this enormous problem. The Borah remedy: Let insurance companies and other large holders of the land banks' mortgage bonds voluntarily scale down farm indebtedness to a point where it can be paid. Said Senator Borah...
Heads of the great insurance companies ignored the Borah proposals, muttered they were not in business for philanthropy. But the problem will emerge for discussion Oct.11 when the Mortgage Bankers Association meets at Niagara Falls and Deane W. Trick of Bankers Life Co. of Des Moines speaks on "The Unwilling Farmer...
...with the President. He was told that he must revamp his personal campaign, get out to the country, make speeches, meet the Roosevelt challenge. He was urged to make a four-week tour ending in California on election eve. His advisers reminded him that Charles Evans Hughes and Senator Borah, mainstays in his 1928 canvass, were not campaigning for him again this year, hinted that he would have to carry more of the party load...
...reasonable discontent which produced the Democratic House victory in 1930 was stronger, if anything, today after three full years of Depression. All that seemed necessary was to translate reason able discontent into winning votes. The West, historically Republican, talked as if it would break from its old moorings. Senator Borah said last week: "The West is still any man's fight." Four Mid-West Governors gathering at Sioux City last week to settle the farmers' strike (TIME, Aug. 29; Sept. 5), had the horrid word REVOLUTION dinned into their ears...