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The way of the conscientious insurgent is never easy. He must have strength and fire to attract followers; he must be tough and crafty and fearless to make headway against convention. At the turn of the century, old "Fighting Bob" La Follette of Wisconsin was such a man. Millions listened...
In Opposition. They soon discovered the error of their judgment. Young Bob measured up to the La Follette tradition, but in his own way. He baited Cal Coolidge for not doing enough to aid the farmers. He attacked Herbert Hoover's Treasury Secretary Andy Mellon for cutting taxes. In...
After the coming of the New Deal, Bob La Follette and his younger brother Philip formally organized the insurgent Progressive Party.* Father La Follette had kept it-barely-within the GOP, as a billowing reform movement. And though they swept Wisconsin in 1936, the progressives never really got off the...
On many other issues the directors and editors disagreed. For example, Editors Chamberlain and Davis supported Senator Taft for the Republican presidential nomination and Managing Editor La Follette was pro-MacArthur. But some of the directors were for Eisenhower, and wanted the magazine to stay neutral until after the convention...
This week at the annual director-stockholder meeting, Freeman Treasurer Alex L. Hillman, successful publisher (Pageant Homeland, People Today), announced his resignation because "it has been almost impossible for the past six months to run the magazine." With the board lined up against them, Editors Chamberlain Davis La Follette also...