Word: altgeld
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only politicians for whom Josephson has a kind word are onetime Governor Altgeld of Illinois, onetime Senator Dolliver of Iowa, Senator La Follette of Wisconsin. He also utters qualified praise for Brooks Adams (T. R.'s political mentor), and his brother Henry Adams, who wrote prophetically in 1905: "We have got to . . . fortify an Atlantic system beyond attack; for if Germany breaks down England or France, she becomes the centre of a military world, and we are lost...