Word: youngstowners
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Ohio Gun. As the opening gun of the Borah campaign in the Ohio primary (May 12), the Youngstown meeting was important if not very inspiring. Snow kept away several hundred reserved-seat holders. Instead of the 4,500 people expected, 2,400 were in the audience. Worse still, Candidate Borah was in need of the night's rest he had lost on the train. Final damper was the Machine Age. Like many another politician, Senator Borah has accepted the adage that modern campaign is a duel by radio. In one of his first major radio trials, in Brooklyn last...
...later Candidate Borah was in Chicago to try again. With $500 from his own pocket, Edgar John Cook hired Chicago's great Civic Opera House for Senator Borah's Illinois opening. Only 1,000 people turned out to listen, but Orator Borah did far better than at Youngstown. Said...
...Senator Borah's mouth this proclamation meant only one thing: The Republican platform must be written, the nominee must be picked, with due consideration for the liberal principles which he for a generation had espoused. Said Candidate Borah last week in Youngstown: "It is a question of the performance of the highest duty offered Republican citizens and you may forget me, if you desire, but not certain men, whose faces are toward the dawn, who believe in progress, who believe in liberalism and who want to return their Republican party to power...
...declined to enter Ohio after his announcement. He was left facing a favorite son. highly respectable Robert Alphonso Taft, son of the late Chief Justice, shrewdly picked by Ohio's Boss Walter Folger Brown to head the regular Republican ticket. With their candidate strongest in the Cleveland-Akron-Youngstown area, Borah managers will consider themselves lucky to win half of Ohio's 52 convention delegates. Not more than ten are conceded to him by the opposition. Last week before the Senator arrived in town the Youngstown Vindicator took a straw vote. Result: Landon, 542; Borah, 322; Hoover...
...Scripps-Howard Press, ran off 125,000 copies of an eight-page flood extra. Paul Block's Post-Gazette borrowed the office of the Newcastle News, got out enough papers for 70,000 of its 204,139 readers, then slogged on to the larger plant of the Youngstown, Ohio Vindicator. The Sun-Telegraph hurried a crew 30 miles to publish on the presses of the Greensburg Tribune & Review...