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...address "the finest farm meeting I ever attended." Amid a storm of happy hog-calls, that agricultural editor and corn-raising expert, Henry Agard Wallace, began by proposing the "reelection of Theodore Roosevelt." Recovering the fumble, the Secretary of Agriculture blushingly explained that "in 1912 I was a Bull Mooser myself." Any forensic slip the Secretary might have made was forgotten when he began assailing "the big boys who want to take away our processing tax." Some, he admitted, were "upstanding individuals" but "they have allowed their minds to be prostituted by middlemen...
...make him better acquainted with the State than most of its natives. His lungs mended rapidly. In 1912 he bought the capital's only newspaper, the Santa Fe New Mexican, and promptly tacked on a Spanish edition. At the same time he jumped into politics as a Bull Mooser against Albert B. Fall's machine, which he later broke. When the U. S. entered the War, he was sent by the Intelligence Department to London. He got the British Military Cross, came out a Captain. Back in New Mexico he helped organize the American Legion, served two years...
...around him. To him the discovery that large corporations play politics and get favors from local politicians was a terrible shock. He wrote a book, The Shadow Men. (In 1934 it would have been Forgotten Men.) When Theodore Roosevelt campaigned in 1912, Richberg went into politics as a Bull Mooser. He went in again in 1924 as a supporter of La Follette, but he did not back a winning political combination until he went to Washington last year to tie up with the New Deal...
...graduate of the University of Chicago (1897), Secretary Ickes began practicing law in 1907, still has a small office on La Salle Street. In 1912 he became a rampant Bull Mooser but in 1916 was behind Hughes, only to switch to Cox four years later. In 1924 he managed Hiram Johnson's abortive Illinois campaign...
...appropriation sponsored by the committee's chairman, Senator Robert Marion La Follette Jr. of Wisconsin who likes to play a sort of political Robin Hood; 2) a $375.000.000 appropriation backed by Senator Edward Prentiss Costigan of Colorado, Virginia-born Harvardman, old-time reformer, Bull Mooser, Anti-Saloon Leaguer, longtime (1917-28) Tariff Commissioner. Having no stake in the proceedings, the rest of the committee went home for the holidays, leaving Senators La Follette and Costigan to prepare what amounted to a record on reasons for relief...