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The Junior Senators Sir: In a footnote to your March 9 article on the late Robert La Follette Jr., you state that Senators Henry Clay and Armistead T. Mason served in the U.S. Senate at the ages of 29 and 28 respectively. I should like to know how this was...
For a "favorite book" display, the librarian at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, Pa.) wrote to 44 men of affairs asking them to nominate two or three books which they considered "most meaningful." Sample return, from Vice President Richard Nixon: Tolstoy's War and Peace, Robert La Follette's autobiography...
Saved at Lunch. By 1940, as war raged in Europe, La Follette's star was waning. Like his father, he was an isolationist, and when he inveighed against lend-lease and the neutrality act, he lost votes. Franklin Roosevelt saved him from defeat in the 1940 senatorial campaign. In...
In 1946 the Progressive Party disintegrated, and La Follette returned to a hostile Republican fold. A few months later, after 21 years, he was unseated by an upstart named Joe McCarthy. He had been too absorbed in his work on the Congressional Reorganization Act to go home and campaign until...
Died. Robert M. ("Young Bob") La Follette Jr., 58, Wisconsin Republican and Progressive Party Senator (1925-46), son and successor to "Fighting Bob"; by his own hand (gunshot); in Washington, D.C. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).