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Bob LaFollette Says
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The PROGRESSIVE VOL. 5, NO. 8 MADISON, WISCONSIN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1941 Price Five Cents Bob LaFollette Says: * * * Willkie's Shocking Admission Disqualifies Him As Leader THE...
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AMA Is Tried On Charge Of Stifling Co-op
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AMA Is Tried On Charge Of Stifling Co-op Charged with using boycotts, threats and other methods to kill .the Group Health Association, a health insurance co-op of 2,500 government employes earning...
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Phil Challenges Youth To Guard Democracy Here
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Phil Challenges Youth To Guard Democracy Here The first problem of the United States "is to avoid providing the kind of soil in which dictators thrive," Philip F. La Follette told a throng of more...
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Wallace Sees U. S. Destiny In Western World
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Wallace Sees U. S. Destiny In Western World THE destiny .of the United States lies in the Western Hemisphere, and "continental and hemispheric solidarity in a Pan-American union is essential to the...
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GOP Leaders Scorn Willkie's Policy Reversal
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GOP Leaders Scorn Willkie's Policy Reversal Torn internally by violent disagreements over President Roosevelt's foreign policy, the Republican Party aired its quarrels publicly last week in a...
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Decision More Fateful Than Lease Bill Is On Way, Nation Warned
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Decision More Fateful Than Lease Bill Is On Way, Nation Warned EMPLOYING ARGUMENTS which 'might have made more sense if uttered in support of a declaration of war, Administration leaders in the...
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Come Over!
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Come Over! And Bring Your Friends To Progressive House March 5 Everybody's welcome! On Wednesday, March 5, The Progressive House, at 315 North Carroll Street, Madison, is having Open...
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Something Has Happened
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Something Has Happened IT IS EASY TO CONJURE up future possibilities of danger from Hitler's Germany. But in this game of fantastics the advantage lies with the most vivid imagination. You can...
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Shake Off Defeatism
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Shake Off Defeatism FASCISM AND national socialism, stemming from the low tide of social achievement in depression years, mobilized the insecurities of a discouraged citizenry. In Germany Nazi...
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State Senate Orders R.O.T.C. At University
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State Senate Orders R.O.T.C. At University Republican forces in the Wisconsin senate last week hammered through final passage the Heil administration measure to make military training compulsory at...
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Progressives To Open State Headquarters
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Progressives To Open State Headquarters Wisconsin's Progressive Party will soon open year-round headquarters in Madiso . to conduct an aggressive campaign of education in Progressive principles,...
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Hungry
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Hungry Willkie Looks For More Pictures, Headlines In China After a few days off the front page, Wendell L. Willkie is hungry for headlines again. Having solved the European situation by posing for...
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United States Can Whip Any In vader-Reis
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United States Can Whip Any In vader—Reis Circuit Judge Alvin C. Reis, Madison, America's youngest wartime major in 1917-1918, maintained last week that the United States is strong enough...
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Wheeler Blasts Commentators As One-Sided
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Wheeler Blasts Commentators As One-Sided Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, Montana Democrat, charged last week that radio commentators, in discussing the Lease-Lend Bill, "are quite one-sided on the great...
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GOP's Heavy Raids On Road Fund Revealed
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GOP's Heavy Raids On Road Fund Revealed The amazing extent to which Wisconsin's Republican administration has been raiding state highway funds to finance its swollen budget tvere revealed for the...
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Progressives Of Illinois Meet Tuesday
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Progressives Of Illinois Meet Tuesday Progressives of Illinois will meet at 8 p. m. Tuesday, Feb. 25 in the rear of the Workmen's Cooperative Association, 2659 S. Pulaski Road, Chicago. The...
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Democracy's Common Stake
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Putnam, Harold
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Democracy's Common Stake :By HAROLD PUTNAM: Boston, Mass. npWELVE COLLEGE kids with a penchant for public service and a A cool disdain for the usually reactionary pursuits of Harvard and...
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America Knows British Aims, Churchill Says
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America Knows British Aims, Churchill Says Responding to repeated demands from members of Parliament that he state Britain's war aims, Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the House of Commons...
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Rival Groups Take Field In War Dispute
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Rival Groups Take Field In War Dispute Two new groups, arrayed on opposite sides of the national conflict over foreign policy, blossomed out last week in New York City. O. K. Armstrong,...
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GOP Creates Job For Party Aide
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GOP Creates Job For Party Aide Creation of a $250 a month job for the sole purpose of "taking care" of Mrs. Lila Burton, Eagle, Wis., member of the Republican state central committee, was admitted...
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THE PEOPLES FORUM
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THE PEOPLES FORUM Icke^ Impotent Squeal Pear Sum Las* evening I bad the pleasure teE listening to th« debate between Mr. La Follette and Secretary Ickes. I must commend the former's thoroughly...
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MORE FORUM
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MORE FORUM What H. R. 1776 Does Dear Sirs: May I suggest that some of those who venture to assert that the so-called "Act to Promote the Defense of the United States" (H.R. 1776) facilitates the...
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South In Control
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Stokes, Thomas L .
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South In Control by Thomas L . Stokes (Scripps-Howard Washington Corresponded THE INFLUENCE of the South in pushing for enactment of the administration's lend-lease bill becomes more plain...
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Invasion Fears
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Invasion Fears IWRITE WITH intimate knowledge of hundreds of audiences in all parts of the country when I say that far the strongest factor in aid to Britain even to the extent of the Lease-Lend...
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If The People Knew
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If The People Knew Pat man From Texas) WHEN THE WAYS and means committee of the House of Representatives was considering the bill to raise the debt limit to $65,000,000,000, I appeared before...
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The Draft Mess
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Villard, Oswald Garrison
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The Draft Mess -By OSWALD GARRISON VILLARDALREADY IT IS PLAIN that the conscription law will have to be revised at this session of Congress. Its relatively hasty adoption, as a result of the...
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Jerome Frank Named For Federal Bench
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Jerome Frank Named For Federal Bench Jerome N. Frank, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, was nominated by the President last week to be judge of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals...
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ITU TO REJOIN AFL
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ITU TO REJOIN AFL Agreement between the executive boards of the American Federation of Labor and the International Typographical Union looking toward return of the ITU to the AFL was announc " this...
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Flynn Lashes Willkie's Flying Burlesque Trip
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Flynn Lashes Willkie's Flying Burlesque Trip ACHEERING throng of 4,000 Milwaukee residents last week heard John T. Flynn, noted economist and author, blast the Roosevelt Administration's Lease-Lend...
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Murray Blasts Broad Powers In Lease Bill
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Murray Blasts Broad Powers In Lease Bill The vast powers which the Lend-Lease Bill would confer on President Roosevelt are so far-reaching that "the American people are at least entitled to know...
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IN THE COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT
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IN THE COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT Independents Plan Milk Cooperative In New York City To deal directly with farmers and consumers in supplying milk, the 200 independent business men comprising the New...
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A ROOM OF OUR OWN
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A ROOM OF OUR OWN By FOR OUR PILGRIMAGE to the old capital of the Emperor Henri Christophe, -Gape Haitian, we left Port au Prince one morning at eight. • Since the railroad no longer runs between...
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Arnold Flays Profiteering In Defense
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Arnold Flays Profiteering In Defense EXCESSIVE prices for essential war materials arid spilling of vital U. S. military information to foreign companies constitute two of the faults the...
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Goal
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Goal Is America, Mrs. Bolton Tells House During Debate On FDR's Bill Rising in the midst of the House's debate on the lend-lease bill, Rep. Frances Bolton, Ohio, pleaded for emphasis on one...
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Your Money's Worth
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Your Money's Worth Finishing Furniture . . An Experienced Horn-maker Tells The Best And Cheapest Way To Do It ¦pURNITURE DEALERS were pretty smart when they chose Febru-*- ary as the month to...
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THE PROGRESSIVE
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THE PROGRESSIVE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1941 The PROGRESSIVE With which is combined La Follette's Magazine, founded in 1909 by Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Published every Saturday by the...
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The Editor Reserves
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The Editor Reserves ... ¦* The Last Column rpHE NATION'S capital is today the world center for despair and defeatism. After inhaling the stifling gloom of Washington for four days, this scribbler...
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