Word: follettee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Good Housekeeping, one of Mr. William R. Hearst's magazines, is conducting a straw-vote-for-President among the women of the country. With a count of 81,303 ballots, President Coolidge led with 52,274 votes. Next came McAdoo with 6,611 votes. And after him, in order...
Like the House, the Senate had a triangular squabble. Each side proposed members for committees and all were accepted without question except the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee-Senator A. B. Cummins of Iowa, President pro tern. The fact that Mr. Cummins held both posts was made the reason...
Follette group, led the insurgent fight, although he voted not for La Follette but for the Democratic candidate, Senator Smith of South Carolina. For four days the balloting continued without result:
Ballots Cummins La Follette Smith First............ 41 7 39 Second.................. 39 7 38 Third............ 41 7 39 Fourth ............ 41 7 39 Fifth........... 39 7 39 Sixth............ 41 7 39 Seventh.............. 40 3 40 Eighth............. 39 2 41 Ninth............ 40 2 41 Tenth.............. 43 6*-† Eleventh.......... 41 l*-† Twelfth...
Senator Bruce explained: "I changed my vote from Senator Smith to Senator Cummins simply because it seemed to me that the Democratic members of the Senate had arrived at a point in the deadlock at which they were merely playing into the hands of the La Follette Magnus Johnson Brookhart...