Word: follettee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶At the request of George Busby Christian, Jr., Secretary to President Harding, President Coolidge withdrew from the Senate Mr. Christian's nomination for a seat on the Federal Trade Commission. Another member of the Commission had opposed the nomination and Mr. La Follette was mustering opposition in the...
If Senator La Follette or some radical friend of his-such as Senator Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite of Minnesota, or Senator Wheeler, insurgent Republican of Montana-should decide to run on a third party ticket, he might very well carry Wisconsin and some of the Northwestern "radical" states. If election was...
Senator Robert M. La Follette.
In place of these two men President Coolidge nominated as special counsel former Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio, Democrat, and Owen J. Roberts of Philadelphia, Republican. After a lengthy debate, Senator Pomerene's nomination was confirmed, 59-13. Those in favor included 34 Republi-cans and 25 Democrats. Those...
¶ Senator La Follette, who started the present investigation many months ago, offered a resolution for an inquiry into Naval Coal Reserves in Alaska, which it was alleged had been improperly leased, "parallel to the Teapot Dome affair."