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There appeared in TIME, March 30, p. 22, a photograph of Senator Borah standing before an automobile of early vintage...
Last week Candidate Taft's eight dele-gates-at-large pulled nearly 2-to-1 ahead of Candidate Borah's in the Statewide vote. Senator Borah elected two district delegates in Akron, one each in Cleveland, Youngstown and Steubenville. Mr. Taft carried off the other 47 of Ohio's 52 votes. In fact the earnest, high-minded lawyer-son of the 27th President of the U. S. made such a surprisingly good showing that romantic journalists began to circulate rumors to the effect that Mr. Taft, instead of being just a hopeless Favorite Son, might make...
...phenomenon of the Ohio primary was that Senator Borah's great & good friend Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth actively opposed him. For the first time in her long political life the eldest child of Roosevelt I stood for election and Ohio gave her some 278,000 votes of approval. Mrs. Longworth has attended six Republican National Conventions, as an interested spectator. Next month at Cleveland she will attend her seventh, as an Ohio delegate-at-large favoring the nomination of Robert Alphonso Taft...
...West Virginia Senator Borah last week played hardly a happier role than he did in Ohio. In a Statewide Presidential primary poll he swept all before him, his only opponent being one Leo J. Chassee of Milwaukee, Wis. This was no great triumph, however, because: 1) Franklin D. Roosevelt polled nearly three votes to Borah's one; 2) the name of Alfred Mossman Landon was reported written in on many a Republican ballot, but since West Virginia law does not recognize write-ins, the Landon votes were not counted; 3) in the election of the State...
Once Dr. Francis E. ("$200 Per Month") Townsend declared that he favored Borah-for-President, later withdrew his endorsement. Last week before 8,000 oldsters in Los Angeles he issued a trial balloon for a new type of Townsend ticket. Said...