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Died. Philip Fox La Follette, 68, son of Wisconsin's "Fighting Bob" La Follette and brother of longtime (1925-46) Senator "Young Bob," who served three terms as Governor of the state (1931-33 and 1935-39) but failed as head of a short-lived Progressive party revival and...
Died. Rachel Young La Follette, 67, button-bright widow of Wisconsin's late Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr., whom she met while working as a stenographer in his father's office and served as secretary and political adviser for five years before their 1930 marriage; after a...
* In 1925 Speaker Nicholas Longworth purged 13 Republican Congressmen from their important committee assignments as punishment for supporting the presidential candidacy of Progressive Robert La Follette (four Senators, including La Follette himself, were also stripped of their committee rank).
James Dalton Trumbo was born in Montrose, Colo.; his father was variously a shoe salesman and a beekeeper, his mother a Christian Scientist who did constant battle with the school board to make sure that no one vaccinated her son. "I was surrounded with the atmosphere of dissent," he remembers...
Perhaps the remarkable fact about Smith's showing in the election of 1928 was not that he ran so poorly in the South but that he ran so well in the North. He gathered 40.8% of the popular vote as against Cox's 34.1% in 1920 and Davis...