Word: ekern
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...sufferers, was given charge in Manhattan and announced almost immediately that he had $500,000 pledged at $1 at head from the United Hebrew trades. Donald Richberg, go-getting Chicago lawyer, was given the business of putting LaFollette's name on the ballots in every State. Herman L. Ekern, Attorney General of Wisconsin, who was made General Director of LaFollette finances, said this was to be a "cash-and-carry . . . pay-as-you-go campaign." It was intimated that some $100,000 was already on hand. If so, this is almost twice as much as the Repub- licans...
...awakened once more the vitality which in illness had lain dormant. He aroused himself. He took oblique cognizance of the fact that there are groups which would like to nominate him for the Presidency on a third party ticket. He wrote a letter to Herman L. Ekern, Attorney General of Wisconsin, who had inquired how he felt towards the Farmer-Labor-Progressive Convention to be held in St. Paul on June 17. His reply was that "the June 17 convention will not command the support of the farmers, the workers or other Progressives, because those who have had charge...