Word: duncan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of Phil La Follette's last acts in office were regarded as none too glorious for a high-minded Progressive. The attempted draining of the State Treasury was one. Another was the pardoning of Thomas M. Duncan, part owner of the Milwaukee Leader and long Phil La Follette's executive secretary and financial adviser. One night last March, Duncan, who had been drinking, careened through the outskirts of Milwaukee in his automobile, smashed into three other cars successively, killed a man, never stopped until overtaken by police. Because of Duncan's respected past, a lenient judge...
...smoke. He said, "What message?" when they asked what he was going to say to the Legislature. Reporters explained and he said he would "put some one to work on it." He fixed the salaries of his secretary and purchasing counsellor at $5,000 each (La Follette paid Duncan $4,800), and, in ink as green as the suits he affects, hand-signed 100 notarial certificates, which Governors usually rubberstamp. Newshawks got the impression that green Governor Heil had yet made no real headway with his economy budget, would not have it ready before its due date, February...
...Duncan Longcope '41, and Tom Lacey '41 are slated to fight for the 175-lb. berth. Prospect for the 155-lb. post is another Sophomore, Bunny Barnes, while Bruce Richardson '41 and Art Page '40 will contend for the 145-lb. position...
...best filled positions on the team are the flanking posts, where George Haydock, Bartow Kelly, Duncan Long cope, Perry Keats, "Sted" Steadman and George Duane are giving each other close competition...
...Neosho, Mo., 50-year-old Virginia Rees told Dr. C. F. Duncan, D.D.S., that she had never had a toothache in her life, that his most excruciating drill left her indifferent. Dr. Duncan took X-rays of her jaw, dropped his when he discovered that not one of her 32 teeth had a root-canal or nerve of any kind...