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Word: follettee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Relatives of public figures often avoid the public eye. As often they cannot escape it. Many a political son and grandson has had a distaste for politics?viz., the late Robert Todd Lincoln?or keeps out of it because of a feeling that the glory he might gain might be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sons & Daughters | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

It was a significant bit of "crow-eating" because the People's Legislative Service is the voice of LaFollettism in Wisconsin. It was founded by the late great Robert Marion LaFollette as the official organ of his Progressive Republican movement. The statement came, moreover, two days after an editorial declaration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In LaFollette-Land | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

This other, less nationally known La-Follette brother is a young man to whom Wisconsin voters point with prophecy and pride every time there is an election. After LaFollette Sr.'s death, and again last spring, they said that Phil LaFollette would run for Governor. This year, at least, it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In LaFollette-Land | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

In the University poll of 1924 President Coolidge got a sweeping majority. He led Davis more than two to one in what was the most thorough poll on Presidential nominees ever taken in the University. 4583 votes were cast, Coolidge polled 2573 votes, Davis received 1200, and La Follette 789...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson's Straw Votes of Past Show Harvard as Republican | 10/17/1928 | See Source »

71.1 percent of the total Faculty vote. He likewise ran high in the Business School, where La Follette was weakest.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson's Straw Votes of Past Show Harvard as Republican | 10/17/1928 | See Source »

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