Word: younger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...election. After LaFollette Sr.'s death, and again last spring, they said that Phil LaFollette would run for Governor. This year, at least, it was real "draft" talk. But he did not let it get very far. He insisted that he was "too young." (He is 31, two years younger than the Youngest Senator.) He wanted to go on with his teaching and his law practice. It was for that, and not to be "available" for greater things, that he relinquished the district attorneyship of Dane County, which he helped a young assistant in his office to inherit...
Temperamentally, too, the father is more present in his younger son. Brother Phil is the artist, Brother Bob the scientist, of politico-social activity. Both are intense, but in Brother Phil the intensity is more apparent. He is less facile at repartee, which Young Bob turns off almost automatically. When they were children, their oldest sister, Fola LaFollette, found small Robert sitting gloomily on the porch. She asked what the trouble was. He explained that Philip and the other sister, Mary, had found a little dead bird and were having a funeral for it. He had been crying because "they...
Canada's Sena tor George Dessaulles is a year older than Miss Howland. Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall, John R. Voorhis, is a year younger. Practically every day he goes to work...
...Governor may succeed himself in Virginia. The Byrd regime ends in 1930. The Byrd influence will not end, however. In managing his State machine, Governor Byrd has the aid of his other younger brother, third of the famed "Tom, Dick and Harry" trio, Thomas Boiling Byrd, who is also in politics. He also has the aid, now, of elements which were unfavorable to him when he ran for office, viz. Senator Carter Glass and Publisher John Stewart Bryan of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Above all he has the aid of that cohesive spirit of aristocracy-in-democracy, which, despite...
...standardizing the figures he seeks to flay. His corpulent, fat-jowled metaphor for the G. O. P. has became almost as well-known as was the late Thomas Nast's moneybag effigy of Boss Tweed years ago.* In the gallery of Kirby stigmata, the figure of Theodore Roosevelt the Younger as a small, grimacing boy in a sport shirt, invented for the Smith-Roosevelt gubernatorial contest in 1926, has lately been joined by a small, wild-eyed girl in a smock, brandishing a torch labeled "Sectarianism" and herself labeled "Mrs. Willebrandt...