Word: follettee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Senator La Follette's Committee investigating the oil industry made its report to the Senate, a fortnight ago, Standard Oil chiefs, headed by Mr. Walter C. Teagle, President of the New Jersey Standard, denounced the findings as political in nature.
Complete control and domination of the oil industry by the Standard Oil Companies, in violation of the 1911 dissolution decree of the Supreme Court, was charged by the La Follette Oil Investigation Committee in its report presented to the Senate after a three months' inquiry into conditions and prices...
Most famous of all his speeches was that against La Follette immediately before America entered the war. The most famous fortnight of his career was in 1912, when he went from Representative to Governor to Senator-elect within 14 days.
The Ship Subsidy has been done to death and the doing has dealt a death blow to President Harding's prestige. Yet nothing daunted, the President sent a message to the Senate at the tag-end of Saturday's session which should raise a new oratorical storm with the Bitter...
He proclaims that "American aid made victory possible." In a sense (not his), this is of course true. But why is should afford him ground for self-congratulation I am at a loss to conceive. Small thanks to him, or to La Follette and the rest, if our troops ever...