Taft ultimately outmaneuvered Roosevelt and Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr. in delegate count, regained control of the GOP convention ; and defeated Roosevelt for the nomination.

Another US law that specifically protects whistleblowers is the Lloyd – La Follette Act of 1912.

** Suzanne La Follette, libertarian feminist ( d. 1983 )

* June 18 – Robert M. La Follette, Sr., American politician ( b. 1855 )

* Robert M. La Follette, Sr., Senator from Wisconsin

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The three states holding primaries to select delegates without the preference component were split: California chose a slate of delegates that supported Taft ; Wisconsin elected a slate that supported Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., and Pennsylvania elected a slate that supported its Senator Philander C. Knox.

* Robert M. La Follette, Senator from Wisconsin

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Robert M. La Follette won two of the first four primaries ( North Dakota and Wisconsin ).

Roosevelt's only hope at the convention was to form a " stop-Taft " alliance with La Follette, but Roosevelt had alienated La Follette, and the alliance could not form.

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Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin was not formally placed in nomination, but received the votes of his state delegation nonetheless.

Since Davis was a conservative, many liberal Democrats bolted the party and backed the third-party campaign of Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin, who ran as the candidate of the Progressive Party.

The third place candidate, Robert La Follette, however, campaigned on a contrary platform.

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In a closed-door meeting in mid-May, La Russa asked Smith if he would like to be traded.

At the same time, Françoise Menidrey, the casting director for Claude Pinoteau's La boum ( 1980 ), asked modeling agencies to recommend a new teenager for the project.

The American musician and artist La Monte Young had been asked to guest-edit an issue of a literary journal, Beatitude East, and asked George Maciunas, a trained graphic designer, for help with the layout ; Maciunas supplied the paper, design, and some money for publishing of the anthology, which contained a more or less arbitrary association of New York avant-garde artists at that time.

" When asked by reporters whether he would continue fighting, De La Hoya responded, " My heart still wants to fight, that's for sure ," De La Hoya said.

The year 1752 brought another major commission to Gluck, when he was asked to set Metastasio's La clemenza di Tito ( the specific libretto was the composer's choice ) for the nameday celebrations of King Charles VII of Naples ( later Charles III of Spain ).

She was asked to perform La bohème at the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado, but due to her filming obligations for The Desert Song, she had to turn it down.

For the female lead, Trintignant asked Lelouch who his ideal woman would be, and Lelouch indicated Anouk Aimée, who had appeared in Fellini's La Dolce Vita ( 1960 ) and 8½ ( 1962 ).

De La Hoya asked for the name of the singer in the video, and the producer replied that she was a singer and actress named Millie Corretjer, who had previously worked with him.

De La Hoya at the time, asked that Corretjer be the model on his next music video.

He asked for the most dangerous job on ship and became officer in charge of a gun battery on board the merchant ship SS La Salle.

When the King entered in to a relationship with Angélique de Fontanges in 1679, Montespan called for La Voisin and asked her to have both the king and Fontages killed.

In 1688, Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, an ambitious young man who had immigrated to New France and bestowed upon himself the title Sieur de la Mothe Cadillac, asked for and received of land along the Maine coast, including all of Mount Desert.

Camacho, a personal friend of Cedeño, asked him to perform Puerto Rico's national anthem, La Borinqueña, as Chevy, el Ponzoñú, on Pay Per View and in front of a national audience in many world countries where the fight was telecast.

Max Reinhardt, with whom Korngold had collaborated on the operas Die Fledermaus and La belle Helene, asked the composer to come to Hollywood in 1934 to adapt Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream to his film version of the play.

When asked why he had burned himself, La Porte calmly replied, " I'm a Catholic Worker.

Connery was unhappy with some aspects of the work and asked British television writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts because of a restriction by the Writers Guild of America.

The following year, Spain entered Serrat in the Eurovision Song Contest 1968 to sing " La, la, la ", but he asked to sing it in Catalan, to which the Spanish authorities would not agree.

When asked about all the missed opportunities against Levante in La Liga and Auxerre in the UEFA Champions League, Mourinho said: " One day some poor rival is going to pay for the chances we've missed today.

Selim subsequently asked Sébastiani and his men ( including Louis Gustave le Doulcet and José Marinez Hervas, as well as the embassy's secretary Florimond de Fay La Tour Maubourg ), to oversee Constantinople's defense and the line of fire nearby Topkapı Palace, organizing maneuvers which caused Duckworth to retreat his forces.

He asked to be recalled in April 1807, being replaced by Chargé d ' affaires La Tour Maubourg.

A turning point that made this transformation possible occurred when then president Machado publicly asked La Sonora Matancera to perform at his birthday party.

It was displayed for a time in the room that the Cela Foundation devoted to his novel La familia de Pascual Duarte until Puig Antich's family asked for its removal.

With a cop patrolling the road Muller would have to be inside a building -- if he was here at all, and not waiting for the prime minister somewhere between this street and the terminal building at La Guardia Airport.

Diario De La Marina was the oldest and most influential paper in Cuba, with a reputation for speaking out against tyranny.

Armenia is a member of more than 40 different international organizations including the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, NATO's Partnership for Peace, the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Trade Organization and La Francophonie.

His fondness for the sport of football led to the patronage of several " Royal " (" Real " in Spanish ) football clubs such as Real Madrid, Real Sociedad, Real Betis, Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña, Real Unión and Real Zaragoza.

* 1682 – Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.

Analytic geometry has traditionally been attributed to René Descartes Descartes made significant progress with the methods in an essay entitled La Geometrie ( Geometry ), one of the three accompanying essays ( appendices ) published in 1637 together with his Discourse on the Method for Rightly Directing One's Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences, commonly referred to as Discourse on Method.

Commissioned for an unknown occasion Salieri's Armida was based on Torquato Tasso's epic poem La Gerusalemme liberata ( Jerusalem Delivered ) and premiered on 2 June 1771.

La fiera was written for Carnival in 1772 and premiered on 29 January.

However, in 1778 Gluck turned down an offer to compose the inaugural opera for La Scala in Milan ; upon the suggestion of Joseph II and with the approval of Gluck, Salieri was offered the commission, which he gratefully accepted.

Joseph II granted Salieri permission to take a year long leave of absence ( later extended ) thus enabling him to write for La Scala and to undertake a tour of Italy.

Salieri's Italian tour of 1778 – 80 began with the production of Europa riconosciuta ( Europa Recognized ) for La Scala ( which was revived in 2004 for the same opera house's re-opening following extensive renovations ).

Of his Italian works one, La scuola de ' gelosi ( The School for Jealousy ), a witty study of amorous intrigue and emotion, would prove a popular and lasting international success.

He also composed one large scale instrumental work in 1815 intended as a study in late classical orchestration: Twenty-Six Variations for the Orchestra on a Theme called La Folia di Spagna.

His small instrumental output includes two piano concerti, a concerto for organ written in 1773, a concerto for flute, oboe and orchestra ( 1774 ), and a set of twenty-six variations on La follia di Spagna ( 1815 ).

In 2004, the opera Europa riconosciuta was staged in Milan for the reopening of La Scala in Milan, with soprano Diana Damrau in the title role.

By this time Naples seems to have become tired of his music ; the Romans, however, appreciated it better, and it was at the Teatro Capranica in Rome that he produced some of his finest operas ( Telemaco, 1718 ; Marco Attilio Regolò, 1719 ; La Griselda, 1721 ), as well as some noble specimens of church music, including a mass for chorus and orchestra, composed in honor of Saint Cecilia for Cardinal Acquaviva in 1721.

The later Neapolitan operas ( L ' amor volubile e tiranno 1709 ; La principessa fedele 1710 ; Tigrane, 1714, & c .) are showy and effective rather than profoundly emotional ; the instrumentation marks a great advance on previous work, since the main duty of accompanying the voice is thrown upon the string quartet, the harpsichord being reserved exclusively for the noisy instrumental ritornelli.

* 1993 – The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.

After graduation and a brief sojourn at the Military School of Paris Napoleon applied for second-lieutenancy in the artillery regiment of La Fère at Valence and after a time was given the position.