Word: follettee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Republican Chairman William M. Butler counterattacked Senator La- Follette on the question of combinations and monopolies:
The movement in which we united with Theodore Roosevelt and millions of other Americans, under the historic name of "Progressive," was not radical. Its purpose was to improve American institutions, not to substitute others for them. It stood for political and social justice, not economic revolution. It believed in democracy...
Here one finds Senator Smoot and his regular cohorts taking the side of the sugar farmers; and Senator La-Follette aligned, in regard to one issue at least, against a group of farmers and on the same side as the great financial interests which he attacks.
How satisfying it must be these days to live in the super-state of Wisconsin, the kingdom educated by the intellectual giant Senator La Follette!
In Washington, with small pomp, a delegation from the American Federation of Labor approached Senator La-Follette and notified him, not of his nomination, but of his endorsement by the Federation. The chief part of the unceremonial ceremony was a speech by Frank Morrison, Secretary of the A. F. of...