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...ready to give up tanks, ships, guns and bombing planes if Europe would do likewise. President Hoover estimated that such reductions and eliminations would save the U. S. two billion dollars in ten years. The country reacted favorably to the President's proposal. "Fair and sound," declared Senator Borah. Senator Robinson, Democratic leader, said the plan would test the good faith of the Geneva Conference. Senator Reed, military affairs committee chairman, hoped it would be accepted. Senator King found it had "some merit." In Paris General Pershing called it "fair and just ... a concrete and statesmanlike plan which should...
Absentees. The continued session of Congress and a general lack of interest kept many a familiar G. O. Politician away from Chicago. Senators Borah. Watson and Smoot, prime figures at Kansas City in 1928, were absent. Andrew William Mellon was at his London post. Claudius Huston who led the Hoover "Boy Scouts" four years ago> could not be found around the Stadium. Allan Hoover, a spectator at his father's first nomination, missed his renomination...
...White House caller was Mrs. William Edgar Borah. She brought her niece, Mary Lueddemann of Portland, Ore. and two Boise friends. The wife of the ursine Senator from Idaho invited the President out to their State to hunt & fish next fall. Replied President Hoover: "If the economic war is over by that time, I'd be willing to go anywhere...
...Senator Borah plunged into the tax debate as follows: "Balancing the budget has been made a slogan. But we delude ourselves if we think we're going to balance the budget by simply passing this tax bill. We must take up the question of stabilizing prices. The gold dollar is no longer an honest dollar. How many suicides must we register, how many insane must we put into asylums, how many farms must go under the hammer before we do something to stabilize our currency...
...find out whether "Judge Wilkerson broke faith with Capone and with the District Attorney and whether he failed to do as he agreed," Attorney Johnson was invited by Senator Borah to come to Washington. Most of the all-day session was taken up by Attorney Johnson with a history of Al Capone and Chicago gangdom. Toward the end of this testimony Senator Borah interrupted, "I want to get hold of your arrangement with Judge Wilkerson...