Word: follettee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In South Dakota " county proposal meetings" were held to choose delegates to state conventions of each Party, to be held Dec. 4. These conventions, according to South Dakota's practice, will select first and second choices to appear on Presidential primary ballots in the Spring. Most of the delegates chosen...
On Dec. 3 opens the first session of the 68th Congress of the United States. That is Der Tag for Robert Marion La Follette, senior Senator from Wisconsin. In 1905 Mr. La Follette first went to the Senate. He had previously been elected governor of Wisconsin three times in succession...
At last he comes into his own. The opening of the 68th Congress is his day. It is for him to make history; for this year he rules Congress?rules it in the same way that, as the progressives say, one man rules the Supreme Court in a 5-4...
The majority of Mr. La Follette's group are, like himself, labelled as Republicans; a few are Democrats; and fewer still, Farmer Laborites. In the Senate 49 votes are a majority; in the House 218 votes. The Republicans list on paper 50 Senators and 225 Representatives?but only on paper...
In brief, if the tax reduction bill is to pass, the support of conservative Democrats, about nine Senators and 23 Representatives must be won. Or the bill must be so modified as to suit the La Follette group. The latter course means that high surtaxes would have to remain on...