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The same clear sense characterizes the statement of President Conant, of Harvard, about the failure to renew the three-year appointments of two young economics instructors as has been manifested in his other public statements. It was this which enabled him to cut through the sophistries of the Nazi demands...
No such array of talent or of enthusiasm could the President muster on his side. The best he had were Hugo LaFayette Black, Alben Barkley, Sherman Minton, Henry Ashurst, Robert La Follette. From these the level of enthusiasm and ability fell rapidly away. His reliable wheel horses Robinson, Harrison, Byrnes...
Charles the Baptist. It was just seven years ago that the U. S. Senate had another great debate on the powers and functions of the Supreme Court, on the question of "property rights v. human rights." Occasion of that debate was the nomination of Charles Evans Hughes as Chief Justice...
"Do you mean the Assistant Secretary of Labor?" cried Chairman La Follette's scholarly colleague, Senator Elbert Thomas of Utah.
To the President, 47 Governors, the Governor General of Canada and the Presidents of all Central American Republics, Governor Philip Fox La Follette mailed a valentine consisting of a heart-shaped Wisconsin cheese.