Word: follettee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was considerable talk that the LaFollette supporters, led by the railway brotherhoods, would seek to. get an out-and-out endorsement for the La Follette Progressive ticket, thereby breaking the Federation's policy. If this was their aim, which it is now permissible to doubt, they failed. The Executive...
LaFollette Progressives. "There remains the candidacy of Robert M. La Follette and Burton K. Wheeler?the first an independent Republican, the second an independent Democrat, running as such.
Thus was the deed done. It had been anticipated, but it remains, nevertheless, the greatest success which Messrs. La Follette and Wheeler have so far achieved.
The fact remains that, when he was a student at the University of Wisconsin, he wrote and had published an oration on logo. He had several offers to go on the stage, "once to play with Booth in Hamlet." But, in general, he felt that the uncertainty of artistic emoluments...
"The only party and the only wet candidate running is Robert M. La Follette. He has been continuously wet. . . . He has been a tsar in his own State politics, eliminating all the men who would not bow down to his 'graven image.'