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Senator Borah opened his campaign for reëlection. The Republicans had been praying him to give them strong support. LaFollette had asked him to follow Brookhart into the Progressive fold. The reason both wanted Borah was because, with the possible exception of LaFollette, politically he is the strongest man west of the Mississippi. And it is a good guess that the reason for his strength is that he does not do the kind of thing they asked...
...into the primary and election campaigns and elected 170 members of the Nation's House of Representatives. These are distributed among the various parties as follows: Democrats, 105; Republicans, 63; Farmer-Labor, 1; Independent, 1; total, 170 - an increase of 120 Congressmen in one election. The reëlection of these 170 and the election of 80 more Congressmen representing the people will bring the people a safe working majority of 250 out of a total of 435 members...
...economy. After that I am for more economy." In proposing to the Government's Business Organization (Budget) that the nation be run on $3,000,000,000 in 1925, Mr. Coolidge thus keynoted, indirectly, his campaign for reëlection. Especially did he assail the national payroll, extravagance in government printing...
...chain of evidence of premeditated murder, Mme. Caillaux was acquitted by a jury, after a sensational trial?apparently upon the novel ground that if the doctors called in to attend Calmette had given him the proper treatment he would not have died. Meanwhile, Joseph Caillaux had stood for reëlection and was once more a Deputy in Paris...
...Lection...