Word: follettee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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On the Republican side, no less pronounced characters took a hand in the proceedings. In the first row on the aisle?appropriate seat ? Senator La Follette appeared, tight-lipped and bushy-haired, in neat frock coat, and slightly stooped, with rather a genial air. His desk was a frequent...
By contrast, Henry Cabot Lodge came and went like a silent wraith. He seemed frail, apparently steadied himself by the desks, so that a sudden draught might not upset him. He paused to chat with this one, with that one, with La Follette, with Pat Harrison, and then retired to...
In April 1922, Mr. La Follette walked down the centre aisle of the Senate with a piece of paper in his hand. It was a resolution which he was about to present for an investigation of naval oil leases by the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys.
There is, however, still some hope. President Nicholas Murray Butler and Mr. Mencken are in Cleveland. William Jennings Bryan is present, and La Follette is buying lumber for a platform. One of the darker horses may canter in under cover of the fog, or the weather may even change.
James A. Frear, La Follette Republican from Hudson, Wis., spoke to his associates. "I wish to pay a compliment to the reporters of the various newspapers who do present the facts in the same news column, correctly. It takes an editorial writer, however, to exercise the imagination of a Munchausen...