POLITICAL NOTES: Great Opposer

One fine January morning 27 years ago the Idaho legislature elected William Edgar Borah to the U. S. Senate. Among his colleagues today Senator Borah is senior member in point of service. To the press gallery he is the Senate's No. 1 orator and to historians the Senator most likely to be remembered in their future chronicles of this era. But to U. S. Presidents from Roosevelt to Roosevelt "Bill" Borah has always been the Great Opposer. Last week the Senator from Idaho arose to his immemorial...

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