Word: follettee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Politics is politics?and something more. It was not politics but death which made Calvin Coolidge President of the U. S. Similarly, it has not been politics but health which during the last six months has prevented Mr. La Follette from occupying his accustomed place in the political oratorical foreground...
Not once did Mr. La Follette mention himself. Yet it was inferred at once that he would run on a third party ticket?or if not on a third party, at least as a third candidate.
Even though Mr. La Follette were actually chosen President by the House, the Senate in electing a Vice President could not elect a Vice President from his ticket, because the Senate is limited in its choice to the two highest on the list of Vice Presidential candidates. Then La Follette...
But Mr. La Follette has not yet said he will be a candidate. His health, to mention only one consideration, might prevent his entering upon such an enterprise. Republican papers suggested that he might run out of resentment, by threatening his party to make it write his wishes into its...
Following Mr. La Follette's blast, Samuel Gompers expressed his disapproval of the St. Paul Convention. The Committee of 48, a Progressive organization, withdrew its support of the convention. William Z. Foster and C. E. Ruthenberg, leaders of the Workers' Party (Communist), issued a counterblast saying that Mr. La Follette...