Word: ekern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote was Curtis, 1,052; with 13 for Vice President Dawes; two for Col. Hanford MacNider of Iowa, onetime (1925-28) Assistant Secretary of War. The only other man to receive a vote was Attorney General Herman L. Ekern of Wisconsin, with...
...gubernatorial battle was, if anything, more important than that for senator, because it involved the state machine control shakily assumed by young Senator LaFollette after his famed father's death. The candidate of the LaFollette group was Herman L. Ekern, who was opposed by Fred R. Zimmerman, onetime friend of the elder LaFollette, but hostile to the scion. Mr. Zimmerman won by over 50,000 plurality...
...next governor of Wisconsin. Fred R. Zimmerman embellishes all his campaign literature with the following maxim: " 'I have known Fred Zimmerman for 20 years and he has always been right.'-LaFollette." But then, there is the story of Mrs. LaFollette and "Young Bob," who support Herman L. Ekern for governor, who tell how Candidate Zimmerman refused to back "Old Bob" when he ran for President, said, "I have no money and no time...
...Stanley Smith also claims to be the favorite political child of "Old Bob." The regular Republicans have put up still another candidate, but the real campaign is being staged by Messrs. Zimmerman and Ekern. On them Milwaukee bets even...
...sufferers, was given charge in Manhattan and announced almost immediately that he had $500,000 pledged at $1 at head from the United Hebrew trades. Donald Richberg, go-getting Chicago lawyer, was given the business of putting LaFollette's name on the ballots in every State. Herman L. Ekern, Attorney General of Wisconsin, who was made General Director of LaFollette finances, said this was to be a "cash-and-carry . . . pay-as-you-go campaign." It was intimated that some $100,000 was already on hand. If so, this is almost twice as much as the Repub- licans...