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IssueVol. 004 Issue 026 (June 29 1940)
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Paid articleBob, Phil LaFollette Take Over Direction Of This Weekly Newspaper
New, Militant Progressive Takes the Field Bob, Phil LaFollette Take Over Direction Of This Weekly Newspaper COMPLETE CONTROL of this newspaper passed this week to United States Senator Robert M....
Paid articleTHE PROGRESSIVE WILL FIGHT ...
"THE PROGRESSIVE WILL FIGHT ..." THIS PAPER was founded 32 years ago. For 17 years Robert M. La Follette, Sr., poured his fighting spirit into its columns and gave it his far-sighted vision. Since...
Paid articleSpirit of Old Bob Guides Jackson At 15th Memorial
Spirit of Old Bob Guides Jackson At 15th Memorial '-TROUBLED and restless ov-er the deepening problems of America and the world, more than 1,00.0 men and women of Wisconsin gathered at the state...
Paid articleFLPF Changes Name, Backs Boh, Loomis
FLPF Changes Name, Backs Boh, Loomis WISCONSIN'S Farmer-Labor and Progressive federation, meeting in convention at Appleton last weekend, voted to change its name, endorsed a slate of candidates,...
Paid articlePhil Summons Nation To Throw Off Hysteria, Buckie Down To Work
Phil Summons Nation To Th row Ofl Hysteria, Buckie Down To Work SPEAKING to a coast-to-coast radio audience last week, Phillip P. La Follette urged Americans to throw off defeatist hysteria and...
Paid articleWheeler Warns New Party Will Follow War Acts
Wheeler Warns New Party Will Follow War Acts Minneapolis, Minn.—"A great liberal anti-war party" would have been Floyd B. Olson's answer to the Democratic and Republican parties it they failed "to...
Paid articleMake Democracy Work In Crucial Times, Warns Immell
Make Democracy Work In Crucial Times, Warns Immell Sheboygan, Wis.—War hysteria will destroy our freedom if we do not "make democracy work in times of crises," Adj. Gen. Ralph M. Immell warned here...
Paid articleWheeler May Bolt If Dems Want War
Wheeler May Bolt If Dems Want War Washington, 1>. C.—Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, Montana, who has threatened to bolt the Democratic party if it becomes the "war party" in America, struck out in the U....
Paid articleCongress Rejects Bob's Fair Tax Plea
Congress Rejects Bob's Fair Tax Plea Washington, D.C. ('.—Sen. Robert M. La Follette, Jr. waged a two-fisted but losing fight last week for adoption of his excess profits tax as part of the huge...
Paid article'Union Jack In 5th Column,' Says Unionist
'Union Jack In 5th Column,' Says Unionist Portland, Me.—Imploring labor to turn deafened ears to "voices urging us to declare war," A,-Frank Reel, leading labor lawyer,; said here last week that...
Paid articleLabor Fights A 'Fifth Column': War Propaganda
Labor Fights A 'Fifth Column': War Propaganda LABOR'S PRESS is raising its defenses against a propaganda drive to drag the United States into the war. Warning against a "fifth column from any...
Paid articleTHE DEFENSE OF AMERICA"
THE DEFENSE OF AMERICA" _ "It Is Our Task To Forge A Ring of Steel Around trie Western Hemisphere"—Phil Warns Mere Is hull I ext ot rhil s Kadio Speech On Defense Given Over National Chain A...
Paid articleStriking Sentences In Phil's Address
THE DEFENSE OF AMERICA" _ "It Is Our Task To Forge A Ring of Steel Around trie Western Hemisphere"—Phil Warns Striking Sentences In Phil's Address "We can do nothing to alter events in Europe...
Paid articleNew 'Progressive Party Federation' Adopts War, State Planks; Hoan Denounces Present Order
New 'Progressive Party Federation' Adopts War, State Planks; Hoan Denounces Present Order Appleton, Wis.—The four-year-old Farmer-Labor and Progressive Federation of Wisconsin voted at its...
Paid articleDon't Meddle Abroad, Work for U.S.,Bach Asks
Don't Meddle Abroad, Work for U.S.,Bach Asks Appletom, Wis. — Dangerous economic pressure threatens America tacause citizens "have been denied the right to work and the enjoyment of their own...
Paid articleHow Jump River Co-op Bit A Utility Dog
How Jump River Co-op Bit A Utility Dog Jump River, Wis.-—"When a man hites a dog—that's news!" goes the gag. In a category almost as unique is the idea of an electric cooperative buying a private...
Paid articleLiberal Youth Ready For Portage Meeting, July 5 , 6
Liberal Youth Ready For Portage Meeting, July 5, 6 FINAL APPOINTMENT of major committees for the first, annual convention of the Young Progressives of Wiscon-' sin, scheduled for July 5 and 6, at...
Paid articleYOUNG… PROGRESSIVES
YOUNG * * * PROGRESSIVES YOUNG Progressive in all parts of the state show increasing interest in the plans for the Young Progressive convention to be held in Portage on July 6 and 7. Pre-*...
Paid articleAmong Virile People, Courage Is GoodPolitics"
"Among Virile People, Courage Is Good Politics" "Radical", Hurled at Old Bob No Worry to Jackson—"A Certificate of Character" Here is the' text of Atty. Gen. Jackson's Memorial speech: IN HIS...
Paid articleSen. La Follette Keeps FSA Funds Open to Farmers
Sen. LaFollette Keeps FSA Funds Open to Farmers Washington, 1). C.—Because of Sen. Robert M. La Follette's efforts in the U. S. Senate, the door may be kept open for farmers to borrow fundsfrom the...
Paid articleBusiness, Labor Laud Phil's Job Insurance Act
Business, Labor Laud Phil's Job Insurance Act «C[TEADIBR job" meetings, a O part of Wisconsin's program to stabilize jobs under the state unemployment compensation law, are being planned for...
Paid articleWAR
War * * * Will Bleed Us White, Bob La Follette Tells Peace League THE Sauk county branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom last week heard from Sen. Robert...
Paid articleMore Than Streetlights Are Dimmed
More Than Streetlights Are Dimmed . .. , . . in Europe's Democratic Capitals, says William Henry Chamberlin, who has seen all liberty destroyed in the name of liberty . . . Let us. keep out of...
Paid articleHeil's Attack on Civil Service Kicks Up Storm
Herl's Attack on Civil Service Kicks Up Storm WiSCONSIN'S perpetually-talking governor, Julius- P. Heil, kicked up a storm of public protest last week with a profane attack on all state employees,...
Paid articleA Room of Our Own
laFollette, Isabel Bacon
A Room of Our Own By Isabel Bacon laFollette IN the issue of November first, 1930, shortly after the merging of LA FOLLEXTE'S MAGAZINE into the PROGRESSIVE, there ap-(peared at the head of our...
Paid articleOur Government
Our Government As our economic life lias become JTm. mare complicated, we citizens have expected and asked increased services from our gDvernment. We voters cannot he experts in all the branches of...
Paid articleProgressive Women Join In Honoring Old Bob
Progressive Women Join In Honoring Old Bob T» AINY weather and steamy heat waves couldn't stop loyal Progressive women from getting up early last Sunday morning and driving to Madison with their...
Paid articleThe PROGRESSIVE
The PROGRESSIVE With which is combined La Follette's Magazine, founded in 1909 by Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Published every Saturday by the Progressive Publishing Company, Tenney Building, 110 E....
Paid articleOff Other Presses
Off Other Presses HEIL AND THE" STATE (Milwaukee Journal) GOV. HEIL, addressing a group of oil jobbers, takes occasion again to "roast" state employes. There are too many of them, he says. If 2,600...
Paid articleLetters To The Editor
Letters To The Editor DISAGREES WITH EVJUE Dear Sirs: Regarding your editorial in The Progressive of May 18, I would like to say that I certai.ily would take into consideration the character of...
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