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There are in the Senate 16 Democrats who in 1928 supported the La Follette Resolution condemning a third term as "unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril to our free institutions." One is Arizona's Ashurst. Another is bumbling Alben Barkley. Last week, to embarrass them, Nebraska's Edward...
Objections to the bill were soon heard. Loudest came from Congress' left wing - Jerry Voorhis of California, Wisconsin's Bob La Follette. They thought it coddled profits instead of taxing them; they talked of boosting the top bracket rate from 40% to 82%. They also disliked Choice i...
Of the 531 U. S. Senators and Representatives, only two are now close to the President. They are: South Carolina's canny, catch-as-catch-can Senator Jimmy Byrnes; Texas' steady, durable Sam Rayburn. Nebraska's Norris has slowed with age; Wisconsin's La Follette is...
Wednesday night, a weary Willkie flopped down beside the radio to hear Halleck's nominating speech. He listened while Halleck pleaded his cause, told the story of Wendell Willkie, who had been born 48 years ago to a lawyer mother and a lawyer father in Elwood, Ind., now wanted...
The La Follette rider was not to be classed with the many emotional proposals of recent years (often sponsored by the American Legion) that have sought to tax all war profits up to 95%. Mild, as war-profits taxes go, La Follette 's was nevertheless inequitable. Reason: corporations that...