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After 21 hours Senator Borah, who can not sleep well on trains and will not fly, completed a long detour around Pennsylvania's floods, detrained wearily at Youngstown, Ohio. There were seven inches of snow. There were 75 greeters to meet him. There was a room in Youngstown's second-best hotel. There was a dinner of Young Republicans, attended by about half the expected number of guests. There was a police escort. There was a speech in Stambaugh Auditorium...
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...
...bitter opposition to any & all efforts to upset the basing-point apple cart is founded in the fact that many plants are geographically obsolete. The steel consuming centre of the U. S. has shifted westward toward Detroit and Chicago, and f. o. b. prices would put the Pittsburgh and Youngstown districts at even more of a disadvantage than they now are. But the real cause is the steelmen's desire to preserve a system whose avowed purpose is to permit any steel company to compete for any business anywhere in the land. It is a "competitive" system by which...
Died. Benjamin Warner. 79, onetime Polish emigrant, cobbler and delicatessen dealer, father of the cinema's three Warner Brothers (Harry. Albert, Jack); in Youngstown, Ohio...