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Many a wise Washington eyebrow went up last weekend as the Presidential yacht Potomac chuffed out into Chesapeake Bay carrying Franklin Roosevelt and two highly interesting cruise guests, Senator and Mrs. Robert Marion La Follette Jr. of Wisconsin. Five days previously Young Bob, over a nationwide radio network, had signed...
Moses had a ten-point program for fixing up his part of the world. Woodrow Wilson had 14. Governor La Follette has five and Fulgencio Batista has 20 (see p. 24). Numerically pretty close to the average, therefore, is the eleven-pointer Herbert Hoover has evolved.
Manifesto on which the La Follette Progressive Party proposed to unite was summarized in five points which called for: 1) public "ownership and control of money and credit"; 2) restoring "to every American the absolute right to earn his living by the sweat of his brow"; 3) granting "the Executive...
Phil La Follette's points obviously did not add up to a clear-cut set of governmental principles. His one pass at an economic technicality, the brief proposal of Government control of credit, was nowhere amplified. At very least it would mean nationalization of the Federal Reserve banks. At...
Simple Truths. Read to Congress the day after Governor La Follette's launching of a new party in Madison, Wis. (see p. 12), the President's message opened with some strikingly similar themes: