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	Robert M. La Follette (American governor) LA FOLLETTE, ROBERT M. 1855-1925 United states senator from wisconsin, 19O6-1925 Progressive party presidential candidate, 1924 Progressive Reformer In 1906 Robert La Follette moved from the governor's office in Wisconsin, where he had served three two-year terms, to the United States Senate, where... Read more
	Robert Marion La Follette Robert Marion La Follette , 1855-1925, American political leader, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (1906-25), b. Primrose, Wis. Early Career Admitted (1880) to the Wisconsin bar, he practiced in Madison, Wis., and was district attorney (1880-84) of Dane co. As U.S. Representative (1885-91), he generally... Read more
	David Eli Lilienthal David Eli Lilienthal , 1899-1981, American public official, b. Morton, Ill. He was admitted (1923) to the bar, practiced law, and was appointed by Gov. Philip La Follette to the Wisconsin public service commission. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933 made him one of three directors, together... Read more
	Follett Corp Follett Corporation 2233 West StreetRiver Grove, Illinois 60171-1895U.S.A.Telephone: (708) 583-2000Toll Free: (800) 621-4345Fax: (708) 452-9347Web site: http://www.follett.com Private CompanyIncorporated: 1894Employees: 8,000+Sales: $1.42 billion (2000 est.)NAIC: 451211 Boook Stores; 42292 Book,... Read more
	Morris Hillquit Morris Hillquit 1869-1933, American lawyer and Socialist leader, b. Riga, Latvia (then in Russia). He came to the United States in 1886. He was the leader of the right-wing, or constitutional, Socialists in their revolt against the radical leadership of Daniel De Leon in 1899. This revolt split... Read more
	name name Personal identifying names are found in every known culture, and they often pass from one language to another. Hence the occurrence of Native American place names throughout the United States and the occurrence among American families of names of various linguistic origins (e.g., Roosevelt,... Read more
	Joseph Raymond McCarthy Joseph Raymond McCarthy 1908-57, U.S. senator from Wisconsin (1947-57), b. near Appleton, Wis. He practiced law in Wisconsin and became (1940) a circuit judge. He served with the U.S. marines in the Pacific in World War II, achieving the rank of captain. In 1946, McCarthy defeated Senator Robert M.... Read more
	Progressive party Progressive party in U.S. history, the name of three political organizations, active, respectively, in the presidential elections of 1912, 1924, and 1948. Election of 1912 Republican insurgents dissatisfied with the conservative administration of President William Howard Taft formed (Jan., 1911)... Read more
	progressivism progressivism in U.S. history, a broadly based reform movement that reached its height early in the 20th cent. In the decades following the Civil War rapid industrialization transformed the United States. A national rail system was completed; agriculture was mechanized; the factory system spread;... Read more
	Thomas Beer Thomas Beer 1889-1940, American author, b. Council Bluffs, Iowa, grad. Yale, 1911, and studied law at Columbia, 1911-13. He is best remembered for his biographies of Stephen Crane (1923) and Marcus (Mark) Hanna (1929) and his witty study of American manners in the 1890s, The Mauve Decade (1926).... Read more