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Senator Borah would have thundered out those startling words in the Senate chamber last week if he had followed verbatim the advice he received in a letter from M. C. Migel, Providence, R. I. silk manufacturer. But no such utterance passed the lips of the ursine Idahoan. Instead, he replied to Mr. Migel's suggestion by mail as follows...
...French newspaper correspondents and some 30 U. S. newshawks were ushered into the big meeting room of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate Office Building, their request for an interview with Senator Borah having been granted. For the first time, last week the grizzled, truculent, 66-year-old Idahoan permitted his remarks to the Press to be taken down stenographically. Robert Thompson Pell, private factotum to U. S. Ambassador to France Walter Evans Edge and liaison man to Premier Laval, was there to serve as interpreter. This service was necessary only once...
President Coolidge and Mr. Lowden together polled about 85% of the entire Republican vote (some 200,000). Senator William Edgar Borah, pugnacious Idahoan, ran a poor third with 14,525 supporters, Vice President Charles G. Dawes received 9,938 and Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover...