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"I object," shouted Wisconsin's young Bob La Follette.
More embarrassing than Senate orations to Franklin Roosevelt was a proposal of twelve Senators with Wisconsin's cherubic La Follette as their spokesman, who introduced a modification of 1937's defeated war-referendum amendment to the Constitution which would effectively shackle the Administration with diplomatic handcuffs.
Said Spokesman La Follette: "Americans have not forgotten the steps that made a declaration of war inevitable in 1917. War breaks out in foreign lands. The Executive decides to help one side. The nation becomes involved in secret commitments and breaches of neutrality. Then there are 'episodes' and...
Brown said a "duplicate has been pinch-hitting satisfactorily," and continued, "but please convey to the Harvard CRIMSON O.G.P.U., alias Cambridge W.C.T.U., our desire to have original returned for framing. Undecided whether to report case to La Follette Civil Liberties Committee or Dies Committee for Un-American Activities, but suspect...
Julius Heil's hairy hands were sore and swollen from too much handshaking after his inaugural. He soaked them in basins for the news cameras and spent his first few days in office making sure his son Joseph had everything under control at the Heil Co. plant in Milwaukee...