Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offering the actor a suggestion as to an improvement in his histrionic technique, La Follette rather startled people. He has been doing so ever since, when Governor of Wisconsin, when drafting platforms for the Republican party, and seeing them rejected. Now he is startling Congress by his liberal progressive bloc, not the germ of a third party, for La Follette is too old a master to risk his neck on that horse again, but as a reform movement within the Republican party...
...President Harding, who has had a fine record in ringing the peg out behind the office of the "Marlou Star." Since Tex himself is an avowed Democrat this is reported either as an indication of a coming party split or as a move for coalition against the farm bloc. It may be that the real motive is gate-receipts...
...next phase of the railroad problem is likely to be a period of amendments or attempted amendments to the Transportation Act. The so-called "Farm Bloc" object to what they contend is a guaranty of earnings. Many of the states are chafing under the curb which the Transportation Act has placed on their powers of regulation. The labor organizations, in common with many business organizations and some railroad managements, are anxious for different reasons to abolish the Labor Board. Others advocate the strengthening of the Labor Board by the compulsory enforcement of its decisions and the prohibition of strikes. Senator...
...Congress in a recent speech in New York: "Men are in office who would barter the interests of their country in order to stay in office, and if there is any organized opposition they run. Look at the way they ran before the organized minorities of the soldier bonus bloc, the labor bloc, the maternity bloc, the good roads bloc. The damned cowards...
...Agrculture must have a future program. It can be made advantageous to the East. The cause of the 'Farm Bloc' is not to advance a few combined political office holders, it is a National economic program involving the food and clothing happiness and welfare of our entire population, and in which the East should cooperate...