Word: follettee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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La Follette−"affects the hirsute adornment of a drug-store yahoo and practises the political disingenuousness of a Jim Watson."
In the House, Speaker Longworth and his fellow Republicans planned the personnel of committees which will have to function until April 15. The Committee on Agriculture (to prepare a farm relief bill) was made up. Because of their increased majority in the next Congress, the Republicans took for themselves 15...
Died. Moses Edwin Clapp ("The Black Eagle of Minnesota"), 77, Washington lawyer, longtime Republican Senator from Minnesota (1901-17), Progressive associate of the late, great Robert Marion La Follette; of apoplexy; at his country home, Union Farm (once part of George Washington's estate), near Accotink, Va. In the...
*Sculptor Jo Davidson spent nine hours, missed a dinner party, watching his statue of the late, great Senator La Follette being moved into Manhattan's Anderson Galleries (TIME, Feb. 11).
Looking around some more you could see William Harrison Dempsey, the evening's promoter; Estelle Taylor, cinemactress when she isn't being Mrs. Dempsey; A J Drexel Biddle Jr., Harvey S. Firestone, John Ringling, Baron & Baroness de Bonsetten, Irving Berlin, Senator Robert M. ("Young Bob") La Follette, Publisher...