Word: follettee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Investigation. But not all citizens of Wisconsin were saying it with flowers for the new Governor. It will be remembered that Mr. Kohler was elected in opposition to the powerful La Follette group which has for many a year controlled Wisconsin politics. Angry, the bitter-enders among the La Follette...
Wisconsin. Innumerable U. S. magazine readers have seen advertisements for colored sinks, for "electric" sinks, for other plumbing fixtures manufactured by "Kohler of Kohler." The Kohler in question is Walter Jodok Kohler of Kohler, Wis., newly-elected Governor of Wisconsin. Gov. Kohler also keeps horses, flys an airplane. His nomination...
He has heard Bill Nye tell stories and Frank Harris converse. Eugene Debs, Eugene Field, the late La Follette, James Whitcomb Riley, O. Henry, Helen Keller and numerous newsboys, janitors, cabbies, children were or are among his acquaintances.
Robert Marion La Follette, 33, was, of course, re-elected in Wisconsin, much to the satisfaction of his mother, Belle, able widow and onetime helpmate of the last great La Follette.
¶ In Wisconsin, a great manufacturer (plumbing), Walter J. Kohler, was elected Governor. This was a certainty after he had won in the primaries against the traditional La Follette power. Any Governor in a politically doubtful State may become nationally conspicuous-and such a fate was freely predicted for this...