Word: bobbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally, committing him as to appearances if not morally and politically, there was Senator LaFollette's able, notable brother, Lecturer Philip LaFollette of the University of Wisconsin's law faculty. Brother Phil had gone up and down the State speaking for Brother Bob and he, too, had said some very
Four years ago, in the father's presidential campaign, both LaFollette sons were on the touring train. Observant people noticed then that there was "mo; of the old man" in Brother Phil than in Brother Bob. It was in his longer, square-cut face; Brother Bob's face is chubby-round, more like that of his stateswomanly mother, Belle Case LaFollette. It was in his voice, a sharper, stronger, more whip- cracking voice than Brother Bob's. It was in his bodily movements ? quick, alert, crisp; Sculptor Jo Davidson, troubled about the hands of his statue of Old Bob...
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...
Whatever crystallizes in Wisconsin next fortnight will be memorable. Walter Jodok Kohler, welfare-working plumbing man, will probably be elected Governor. Young Bob will almost certainly be re-elected Senator. There will be fights all down the line for other offices, the bitterness of which is daily being transmitted to the Presidential campaign in Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas and Nebraska, where LaFollettism's determined foster-father, Senator George William Norris, was last week preparing an "important announcement" for his coming national radio hookup. Afterwards...
...year-old fight between "regular" and "progressive" Republicans in Wisconsin was sure to continue. "As far as I am concerned, I have just begun to fight," said Brother Bob last month. Since the "regulars" are stronger now than they have ever been since 1908, it would not be surprising to see Brother Phil pitch in as a candidate in some election soon, if and when needed...