Word: moosers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point: New York City contributes roughly 50% of the state budget, gets back only 38% of state expenditures on services. But one lone Republican, standing against a house divided, threw in an argument that stung the most ardent secessionists. Said Stanley M. Isaacs, onetime Theodore Roosevelt Bull Mooser, the only councilman to vote no to secession: "Remember that more than one-half of the prisoners in state institutions come from New York City . . . What would you do with all the criminals you now farm out to institutions upstate? Would you turn Staten Island into Alcatraz...
Scopes & Romanoff. Hays, the only lawyer in his time to bear the names (more or less) of three Republican Presidents (his family name was originally Haas), pursued his liberal ways as a Republican, a Bull Mooser, a Farmer-Laborer, a La Follette Progressive, a New Deal Democrat, and finally as a rugged independent. If he was inconstant in his politics, he spent his life in single-purposed dedication to man's right to his own freedom. It made no difference to Hays if he happened to disagree with a client's views: the heart of the matter...
That irascible old Bull Mooser, Harold Le Claire Ickes, was 58 when Franklin Roosevelt was elected President in 1932; he had put in nearly 30 years fighting for lost political causes, and he seemed almost taken aback at finding himself on the winning side at last. He recovered quickly. In 13 years as Secretary of the Interior, Honest Harold (a nickname that made him squirm) became a national institution. His bristling incorruptibility, his old-fashioned reformer's views, his endless suspicions of all other politicos, his Donald Duck temper and acid-tongued campaign speeches made him a figure unique...
Emporia, Kansas has long been famous as the home of the late William Allen White, ardent Bull Mooser, editor of the Emporia Gazette, and crusader for the rights of free speech. It is now rapidly becoming notorious as the locale of Emporia State Teachers College, whose acting President has recently enunciated the doctrine that a college teacher has no right to engage in political activity...