Word: follettee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senate Republicans. Mr. Lodge of Massachusetts was re-elected as floor leader of his party in the Senate. Mr. Curtis of Kansas was chosen as Senate whip. The progressives?La Follette, Brookhart, Norris, Ladd and Frazier, were not present. The two Farmer Laborites, Shipstead and Johnson of Minnesota, did not...
But Mr. Cummins is not intrenched beyond possibility of attack in his post, which, since Mr. Coolidge became President, carries the Vice Presidential salary of $12,000. At any time a coalition of Democrats and insurgent Republicans can unseat him. He is co-author of the Esch-Cummins Transportation Act...
The excuse for deposing him would be that he ought not to have the double business of presiding all the time? as he now must since there is no Vice President?and of carrying on the arduous duties of Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee. He could very well resign...
There were Hiram Johnson and Ralston in the full bloom of candidacy. There was Borah, who led in the blind Senator, Gore of Oklahoma. There was Warren, father-in-law to General Pershing, last of the Civil War veterans, and Pat Harrison, the Democratic whip?all the others regular and...
Last week Senator La Follette was reported ill with influenza. He is 68 and his health no longer what it was once. It is even possible that considerations of health may keep him out of the Presidential race next year. If influenza should keep him from the opening of Congress...