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Populism aimed to free the small farmer from debt, and it inspired William Jennings Bryan's free-silver policy, which was designed to put more money into circulation. From Populist roots grew the Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota, the Non-Partisan League in North Dakota and the Progressive Party...
The employee, Julie Smith, noticed the Harvard College Library stamps on the papers and handed them over to Lizellen La Follette '79, who also works at the hospital.
La Follette said yesterday the papers were discovered in the bottom drawer of a dresser purchased in a "shoddy Boston antique store." The antique dealer, realizing after the sale that the papers were in the dresser, tried to sell them to Smith for $120 or retain them.
A prodigious talker, La Follette also in spired Morse with his lifelong love of or atory - the longer the better.
When he returned to the Senate after the election, he carried a folding chair. Where, he mischievously asked, should he sit? He was finally placed on the Republican side of the aisle, but he was stripped of his important committee assignments and relegated to the District of Columbia Committee. Resisting...