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Last week the background, if not the detail, of this horrendous story was confirmed by a report of Senator Robert M. La Follette's Civil Liberties Committee. From nine volumes of testimony on labor espionage elicited in the Committee's hearings last year, Senator La Follette concluded that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Espionage Exposed | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

Intended as it was to be a primer on the profession, Senator La Follette appended to the report a glossary of such technical terms as "fink" (strikebreaker), "noble" (commander of a strikebreaking squad), "missionary" (spreader of anti-union propaganda, especially among workers' wives), "hooker" (spies who tempt workers to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Espionage Exposed | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

Promptly the protests started to pour in to Senator La Follette's office. In some cases at least the dapper little heir to the Wisconsin Progressive machine had apparently stuck his neck way out. The list had been compiled in large measure from questionnaires sent out to detective agencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Espionage Exposed | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

Liberals, led by aging Associate Justice Brandeis, currently lean toward original cost, but since the case of Smythe v. Ames in 1897 the Supreme Court has steadily upheld the principle of reproduction costs. And the utilities since 1897 have been favored by the reproduction cost theory because prices have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Economic Peace | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

*U. S. delegates were headed by Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, included Senators Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin, Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Champions of Democracy | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

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