Word: follettee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In the Republican Party, Coolidge is the preeminent candidate and Johnson an industrious but disadvantaged rival. At present there seems likelihood of only two others going to the National Convention with pledged delegates. They are Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, who is expected to have only a fraction of Pennsylvania'...
Such inconsistency is to be expected when the aims of the movement are altered from one session to the next. Its protest at one time takes the form of a bonus bloc, then of a farm bloc, and now a railroad bloc. The present phase, the railroad bloc, like those...
Contrary to general expectation Calvin Coolidge was picked, 50,379 votes to 27,340 for Hiram W. Johnson to head the ticket. The corresponding Demo-cratic place went to Wm. G. McAdoo by a substantial majority over Henry Ford, and the Farmer-Labor place was won by La Follette over...
Some ten years ago the "anti-railroad" group in the Senate, led, of course, by La Follette, conceived the idea of investigating the value of American railroads, in order to determine whether or not they were over-capitalized, and if existing railroad rates as largely set by the Interstate Commerce...
The worst of it is, that even at the low valuation often set by the Commission, the value of the American railroad companies is so vastly greater than vvas imagined by Senator La Follette and his followers, that they too are challenging the accuracy of the valuations already set.