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Word: beanfeast (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first few days in office making sure his son Joseph had everything under control at the Heil Co. plant in Milwaukee. With his right hand still bandaged he pressed a button opening Wisconsin Public Service Corp.'s new dam near Merrill, Wis. and sat down to a beanfeast with 275 Midwest utilitarians. Then he made a speech which sounded new indeed coming from a Governor of Wisconsin: he admonished the Public Service Commissioners present to "be fair to industry, that the men & women who have money invested may gain a little interest on the money which they have earned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WISCONSIN: Heil Heil | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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