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For week-end guests on the Potomac, the President chose three Possibilities for 1940: Senate Leader Barkley (see p. 10) and two Progressive La Follette Brothers, Senator Robert and Wisconsin's Governor Philip.
Having nearly exhausted his original $55,000 appropriation, Senator Robert Marion La Follette last week asked the Senate for another $50,000 to carry on the work of his Civil Liberties Committee. As a sample of the Committee's work the shrewd little Wisconsin Progressive also sent the Senate...
Hopping mad was Chicago officialdom when the La Follette findings were released. Far from demonstrating remorse, officials were preparing to prosecute, for conspiracy to riot, some 65 strikers, sympathizers and bystanders who were arrested during the riot. Moreover a six-man coroner's jury had just white-washed the...
Great things were at stake: the fate of the President's Court Bill, and equally important, the choice of a majority leader to succeed Senator Robinson. Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky, choice of the President for the post, and Senator Pat Harrison, backed by most of the veteran Senators...
One of the happiest of the "happy hot dogs" whom Harvard Law School's Professor Felix Frankfurter is supposed to have hand-picked to put across the New Deal, had reason last week to be happier than ever. Now 39, now dean of the University of Wisconsin's...