Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...educational institutions have had such a political kicking around as the University of Wisconsin. In 1937 Wisconsin's then Governor Philip Fox La Follette packed the University's Board of Regents with his own men and ousted slick Glenn Frank from the presidency. Hardly had Phil La Follette got Clarence Addison Dykstra, Cincinnati's flood city manager, into the job than Wisconsin did a political about-face and elected plump, pink Republican Julius Peter ("The Just") Heil to the Governorship (TIME, Jan. 16). Governor Heil promptly declared war on President Dykstra...
...good educator and administrator. Even the bulk of the Republican legislative majority opposes the president's removal, but the Governor could wait until the Legislature adjourns and then do as he pleased. Day after the Assembly passed the bill, the Governor conferred for an hour with ousted President Glenn Frank, who flatly assured a reporter: "Let me say, once and for all, that I do not want to return to the presidency of the University of Wisconsin and would not, under any circumstances, return...
Guess I'll Go Back Home (Glenn Miller; Bluebird). Able new band of able old trombonist plays Willard Robison's (Old Folks) newest nostalgia...
Wisconsin's students are fun-loving, friendly, athletic, many of them farm bred. Wisconsin's Clarence Addison Dykstra, 56, is serious, hardworking, cold, a political fencesitter. Arriving at Wisconsin two years ago to clean up after Glenn Frank, who had a feud with Governor Phil La Follette, Dykstra pacified the faculty in the same efficient way as he had handled Cincinnati's flood as its City Manager, but he has so far kindled no fire among faculty or students. Frank Porter Graham, 52, is called "Mr. Frank" by his students at the University of North Carolina. Generally...
Besides getting Glenn expelled from the Party for questioning decisions, Comrade Silverstone steals Glenn's mistress. Glenn's final disillusionment comes in Spain, where he goes to fight with the Loyalists. Again Comrade (now Commissar) Silverstone pops up, this time contrives to get Glenn arrested as a "Trotskyist-Bukharinist wrecker...