Word: follettee
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For one of the few times in his presidency, there was nothing on Harry Truman's desk that required urgent action. His chief unfinished business-other than backing up Jimmy Byrnes at Paris-was filling some top Administration vacancies. He had at least one good candidate around: Wisconsin'...
But even optimistic Joe McCarthy had not counted on victory until late returns on election day showed that labor had deserted La Follette. Milwaukee county, which Young Bob had carried by 55,000 in his 1940 campaign as a Progressive, went for McCarthy by 10,000 in the G.O.P. primary...
The turnabout was partly the result of onetime La Follette supporters flocking into the Democratic primary to vote for former Representative Howard McMurray, an ardent New Dealer. They had shied away from La Follette's isolationist record, his return to Republicanism and subsequent indorsement by Ohio's conservative...
Defeat for La Follette was a sad finish to an imposing family history. First Fighting Bob, then Young Bob had sat continuously in the U.S. Senate since 1906. Young Bob's departure would mean the loss to Congress of a Senator with great technical excellence, whose last fine job...
But the sons came back, married Swiss girls, toiled thriftily, and went right on preserving the customs of Canton Glarus which they had never seen. So did their sons and daughters. By now, for all practical purposes, New Glarus is completely Americanized. Its people have more automobiles, iceboxes, radios, pianos...