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Senator and Borah
Image: Williameborah. jpg | Senator William Borah of Idaho
Although many candidates sought the Republican nomination, only two, Governor Landon and Senator Borah, were considered to be serious candidates.
Coolidge's next choice was Idaho Senator William Borah, but he also declined the nomination.
Idaho Senator William Borah acclaimed Curtis " a great reconciler, a walking political encyclopedia and one of the best political poker players in America.
The term " Phoney War " was possibly coined by U. S. Senator William Borah who stated, in September 1939: " There is something phoney about this war.
As Idaho Republican William Edgar Borah said the following morning, " Senator Cummins was highly respected by everyone who knew him.
The nationally publicized trial took place in Boise in 1907 and included Senator William Borah for the prosecution and Clarence Darrow for the defense.
Lowell had sharper exchanges with the die-hard Republican isolationist Senator William Borah of Idaho.
: I yield neither to Senator Borah nor to any other man in admiration of the Farewell Address and of the great Fathers of the Republic ; but I would not use them as a cover for party politics.
Her marriage to Representative Nicholas Longworth ( Republican-Ohio ), a party leader and 43rd Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives, was shaky, and the couple's only child was a result of her affair with Senator William Borah of Idaho.
As reported in Carol Felsenthal's biography of Alice, and in Betty Boyd Caroli's The Roosevelt Women, as well by TIME journalist Rebecca Winters Keegan, it was generally accepted knowledge in DC that Longworth also had a long, ongoing affair with Senator William Borah, and the opening of Longworth's diaries to modern historical researchers indicates that Borah was, by Longworth's own admission, the father of her daughter, Paulina Longworth ( 1925 – 1957 ).
The child's biological father was Senator William Borah.
The peak is named for William Borah ( 1865 – 1940 ), a prominent U. S. Senator from Idaho ( 1907 – 1940 ).
William Edgar Borah ( June 29, 1865 – January 19, 1940 ) was a prominent Republican attorney and longtime United States Senator from Idaho noted for his oratorical skills and isolationist views.
Purportedly, Kremlin officials held Borah in such high esteem that American citizens could gain permission to travel throughout the Soviet Union with nothing more than a letter from the Senator.
When conservative President Calvin Coolidge was told of Borah's fondness for horseback riding, the president is said to have replied, " It's hard to imagine Senator Borah going in the same direction as his horse.
Conservative Republicans in Idaho, notably Governor and later Senator Frank R. Gooding, often feuded with Borah as well.
Borah won a majority of delegates in only one state, Wisconsin, where he had the endorsement of Progressive United States Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr. Borah refused to endorse the eventual Republican nominee, Alf Landon, leading some to believe he might cross party lines and support Roosevelt's reelection.
Alice then retaliated by having a lasting affair with Senator William Edgar Borah, which at its height, produced a child Paulina Longworth.
Her biological father was Senator William Borah.
It is named after William E. Borah ( 1865 – 1940 ), a prominent U. S. Senator from 1907 – 40 and a presidential candidate in 1936.
Robinson traveled to Cuba, where he stayed briefly while Idaho Senator William Borah intervened on his behalf and helped him to obtain a visa.

Senator and saw
Senator Philip Le Feuvre topped the poll in 1948 on a platform of implementing Social SecurityThe first election under the new constitution saw a struggle for dominance between the Jersey Democratic Movement and the Jersey Progressive Party, led by Cyril Le Marquand.
A re-instituted ceasefire later followed as part of the negotiations strategy, which saw teams from the British and Irish governments, the Ulster Unionist Party, the SDLP, Sinn Féin and representatives of loyalist paramilitary organizations, under the chairmanship of former United States Senator George Mitchell, produced the Belfast Agreement ( also called the Good Friday Agreement as it was signed on Good Friday, 1998 ).
The 1888 election for President of the United States saw Grover Cleveland of New York, the incumbent president and a Democrat, try to secure a second term against the Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison, a former U. S. Senator from Indiana.
Meanwhile, tensions between the two nations rose as 1956 saw the suppression of Hungary by the soviets ; the U. S. and European nations drew certain conclusions from that event, while in the U. S., a powerful social backlash was afoot, prompted by Senator Joseph McCarthy, the House Un-American Activities Committee, and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, two atomic spies.
Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee won most of the primaries, but he was unpopular with President Truman and other prominent Democrats, who saw him as a party maverick who could not be trusted.
Labor Senator Tony Mulvihill later related that " Whitlam would come back to each caucus meeting and say, ' I saw His Excellency ... No worry.
During the war he saw two tours of duty: The first in 1942, while also serving as a U. S. Senator, and the second in 1944 – 5 after resigning from the Senate.
Lodge served the first year of his new Senate term, but then resigned his Senate seat on February 3, 1944 in order to return to active duty, the first U. S. Senator to do so since the Civil War He saw action in Italy and France.
Senator John McCain ( R-AZ ) saw a tape of the first UFC events and immediately found it abhorrent.
Senator Phil Gramm, then chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said he was appalled the first time he saw Coverdell speak during the 1992 election.
In collaboration with his partner George S. Nixon ( who was to become a US Senator in 1904 ), Wingfield started in Belmont, Nevada in 1901 and then saw the potential of Goldfield after mining at Tonopah, only a few miles north, took off.
Senator Bill Bradley regarded the whole episode as " a minor issue -- the supply of arms to the Nicaraguan contras, a policy that took on monumental proportions inside the Beltway and upon those liberals who saw another quagmire in every exercise of military power.
A further update in 1987 saw the grilles and rear lamp clusters revised again in a style similar to the larger Senator model together with further improvements to equipment levels.
Inhofe was elected Senator Boren's successor in this nationally historic election cycle that saw the Republican Party take both houses of Congress and the Oklahoma governorship ( the latter for only the second time in state history ).
The presidential elections saw the Republican John McCain, the senior Senator from Arizona, with his running mate Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska, run against the Democrat Barack Obama, the junior Senator from Illinois, with Joe Biden, the senior Senator from Delaware.
On July 13, 2006, Senator David Vitter ( R-LA ) saw an 84-16 vote for his amendment prohibiting the use of federal money for federal agents to confiscate weapons during a declared state of emergency.
1988-1990 saw 3AK again become a purely talk format station, with such high profile names as Darren James ( with Bruce Mansfield as Uncle Roy ), Margaret Peacock, Don Chipp ( a former Federal Liberal Party Minister and later the founder of and Senator for the Australian Democrats ), Peter O ' Callaghan ( an ex 3XY and EON FM DJ ), Keith McGowan and Bill Howie ( a former 3AK Programme Director ).
Bass lost badly — by over 30 points — to Robin Beard, the Republican who had defeated Anderson, despite 1976 otherwise being almost a Democratic sweep in Tennessee, which voted for Jimmy Carter for President and saw the defeat of Senator Bill Brock in favor of Jim Sasser.
Shortly after midnight on 5 June, Longet and Williams were watching Senator Kennedy's televised primary victory speech in Kennedy's suite in his hotel and saw Kennedy make the " little hand gesture ".
McMahon had no special knowledge of matters relating to atomic energy, but saw the opportunity as a means to assert himself as a new Senator, especially as the May-Johnson view was coming under increased attack from scientists and eventually even lost support of the White House.
" Senator Henry Cabot Lodge saw in the strike the dangers of the national labor movement: " If the American Federation of Labor succeeds in getting hold of the police in Boston it will go all over the country, and we shall be in measureable distance of Soviet government by labor unions.
Former U. S. Senator Chris Dodd, then-chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, remarked about the Fed's role in the present economic crisis, " We saw over the last number of years when they took on consumer protection responsibilities and the regulation of bank holding companies, it was an abysmal failure.

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