Word: follettee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The death on March 24 of Senator Samuel D. Nicholson of Colorado deprives the Republicans of another vote in the next Senate. In the new Congress the Republicans had, until the death of Senator Nicholson, 53 Senators; the Democrats, 42; and the Fanner-Laborites, 1. Governor Sweet of Colorado, who...
The Democrats will have a majority. Control of the Senate by the Administration will be at an end. This new state of affairs is likely to be felt as soon as the 68th Congress assembles. The chairmanship of the Finance Committee is left vacant by the retirement of Senator McCumber...
The case for endowed universities has been considerably strengthened by the Legislature of Wisconsin, That body, controlled by friends of Senator La Follette, has passed a resolution denouncing the members of the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, who signed a document criticizing the attitude of the Senator toward the...
" The report," concluded Senator La Follette, " is unanimous and is in no sense political."
The mounting price for petroleum products has not gone without an accompaniment of verbal fireworks. Senator La Follette could not quite bear to leave Washington this session without a final and characteristic fling at the " Standard Oil monopoly." In rebuttal, President W. C. Teagle of the Standard Oil Company of...