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> A millionaire businessman-for-Senator is Wisconsin's Frederick Harold Clausen, 65, board chairman of Holeproof Hosiery. Sober, hardheaded Fred Clausen campaigned last week on a frankly conservative, anti-New Deal, pro-defense platform, while Progressive Bob La Follette and Democrat James Edward Finnegan got in each other'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Also Running | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

Only politicians for whom Josephson has a kind word are onetime Governor Altgeld of Illinois, onetime Senator Dolliver of Iowa, Senator La Follette of Wisconsin. He also utters qualified praise for Brooks Adams (T. R.'s political mentor), and his brother Henry Adams, who wrote prophetically in 1905: "We...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ballot Barons | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Last week the most mismanaged bill of the 76th Congress passed the Senate. Few Senators understood it; none liked it. Neither did anybody else. The bill was an important one-an Excess Profits Tax Act. Last month Senator Pat Harrison, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the nearest thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: How Not to Write a Tax Bill | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

Last week the whole Senate had a whack at it. Senator La Follette offered a carefully simple substitute bill (along Treasury lines), was turned down. Senator Josh Lee offered an amendment to "draft wealth" through forced loans, was turned down. But most of the debate centred on an irrelevant amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: How Not to Write a Tax Bill | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Glenn Frank, 52, longtime educator and GOPundit, candidate for Wisconsin's Republican nomination for U. S. Senator; and Reporter Glenn Frank Jr., 21, his son; in a motor accident en route to a speaking engagement; near Green Bay, Wis. When in 1925 Dr. Frank resigned as editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 23, 1940 | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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