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She covers wide swaths of Washington state and Oregon.

Her latest large-scale project is Not One Drop of Blood. All the foreign governments released their political prisoners three years ago. However, he opposed women`s suffrage (the Nineteenth Amendment) and child labor legislation. The documentary film digs into mysterious cattle mutilations in rural Oregon.

She also created the popular podcast Ghost Herd, and the recent short film Billy’s Magic.

Anna’s earned two Gracie awards, a Sigma Delta Chi Award in Breaking News and was named Woman of the Year by Washington State University in 2016.

He was a most intriguing person.

Both John Lewis, who was another close friend, and Borah were remarkably similar in looks and also, to some extent, in temperament.

william e borah biography of michael

Defeated in his first attempt to enter Congress as a Republican in 1896, he was appointed to the U.S. Senate in 1907 and remained there until his death in 1940. Six months before the war began we were told that this great World War had its roots in causes

which we did not understand and with which we were not concerned and that we should keep out of it.

I was thinking today as I was reflecting over this situation that six months before the time we declared war some of the most prominent members of the government at that time would have been guilty of the same offense for which these men are now in prison. Like Reed, he was a great speaker. He had never been abroad. Later he was seen standing in a doorway leading to his law office looking, according to Ruby Darrow who saw him, "alone, abandoned-- the most downcast man I ever saw."

After the Haywood trial, William Borah served in the United States Senate, becoming a notable champion of Progressive causes.

Borah Symposium

Location: International Ballroom, Pitman Center

Panel discussion: The Impacts of Trade Wars on Agricultural Commodities

Moderated by: Anna King, Senior Correspondent with Northwest Public Broadcasting

Panelists: Tim McGreevy, CEO of USA Pulses; Xiaoli Etienne, Idaho Wheat Commission Endowed Chair in Commodity Risk Management; and Brett Wilder, UI Extension educator in farm business management
 

Moderator bio

Anna King
Senior Correspondent with Northwest Public Broadcasting

Anna King is a senior correspondent for Northwest Public Broadcasting.

In 1923, in a speech at the Lexington Theatre in New York City, he declared:

It is now four years since the armistice. Borah maintained his political independence, often opposing the Republican Old Guard. In such times we ought to reconcile ourselves to our government's successful conduct of the war. Indeed, if it is a question of the method of carrying on the war and he believes it is unwise or unjust, it is his duty to say so.

(2) Alice Roosevelt Longworth, interviewed by Michael Teague in 1981.

There were a number of really able members of the Senate in the twenties, Jim Reed, Oscar Underwood, John Sharp Williams, and Bill Borah among them.

She was nominated for a Regional Emmy this year for her work on Billy’s Magic.
 

Guest speaker bios

Tim McGreevy, CEO
USA Pulses
USA Pulses Trade Association

Tim McGreevy is the CEO of USA Pulses and the USA Pulses Trade Association, Pulse Foundation, Idaho Pea and Lentil Commission, Washington Pulse Crops Commission and the Western Pulse Growers Assn.

He supported Roosevelt`s New Dealreforms such as Social Security and the Fair Labor Standards Actbut criticized the National Industrial Recovery Act because he thought the NRA codes encouraged monopoly. He had nearly drowned as a child apparently and he was afraid of crossing water. He died in Washington DC on January 19, 1940.

Borah's interest in women continued unabated throughout his career, and at one time a long affair between him and Theodore Roosevelt's married daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, earned her the nickname "Aurora Borah Alice."

Borah had a strong interest in politics, beginning with a race for city attorney of Boise which he lost by three votes in 1891.  By 1896, Borah was the leader of Idaho's Silver Republicans, bolting the national ticket to support Frank Steunenberg's campaign for governor.

(Borah was tried on timber fraud charges in late 1907, defended by Jim Hawley, and acquitted by a jury after 14 minutes of deliberation. The World Court seemed to Borah to be a "back-door" effort to bring the United States into the League of Nations, and he opposed American participation. Jim Reed was a fantastic orator with a saturnine voice.