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Last week the name of Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho loomed in the news of the land. In Martinsburg, W. Va., he made a ringing speech for the Tariff Bill's Export Debenture Plan which President Hoover strenuously opposes. Back in Washington he was primed to lead off the Senate attack upon Judge John Johnston Parker, President Hoover's appointee to the Supreme Court. To Chicago he sent a message to Senate Nominee Ruth Hanna McCormick welcoming her as an ally against President Hoover's World Court Plan. He voted against confirming President Hoover's nominee for District...
...attacking Mr. King's pet policy last week other Conservative speakers who followed Mr. Guthrie scathingly asked whether the Canadian Legation in Washington (maintained at an annual cost of $100,000) is being used to protest the U. S. tariff. " One thing we do know!" roared Conservative Thomas Kaiser. "We have never had so many troubles with them [the U. S.] over liquor as since we established our Legation...
...June primaries he will face Minnesota's Governor Theodore Christiansen for the Republican Senatorial nomination. He alienated a large part of the Minnesota rural press by charging in the Senate that its editors were controlled by "big Eastern influences," because they disagreed with him on the tariff...
...Adopted (221 to 153) a resolution sending the Tariff Bill to conference with the Senate, with a "gentleman's agreement" to vote on special items in controversy later...
...Scullin tariff imposes a 50% supertax on numerous importations including cigarets, locomotives, spirits, matches. Eighty commodities are totally barred from importation by one of the stiffest embargoes ever imposed...