Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until overtaken by police. Because of Duncan's respected past, a lenient judge, who had found him guilty of first-degree manslaughter (calling for five to ten years in prison), let him off with a short term in Milwaukee's house of correction. Just before leaving office Governor La Follette, acting without the State pardon board, freed his friend because, he said, he knew the tragedy had resulted from Duncan's hard work and business worries...
...first Heil budget, which had not yet been completed last week, will be evidence of what happened to a businessman after he got into politics. Other demonstrations of what a Republican may do to new-dealish institutions set up before his advent were in store as Business-Governor Heil addressed himself to major monuments of the La Follette regime...
...service of his predecessor, Republican Walter Jodok Kohler, which Phil La Follette enjoyed was the State Emergency Board, composed of the Governor and the finance committee chairmen of the two legislative houses. In the closing days of Mr. La Follette's term, the State Supreme Court padlocked, in the State treasury, some $4,000,000 which this board was about to dole out to Civil War veterans and the teachers' retirement fund. This would have left the State treasury virtually bare when the new Governor took office...
...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 by the sweat of their brows." When he finally did go to his executive desk...
...land last week was the return of Republicanism-epitomized by Wisconsin's "hardheaded" Julius Peter Heil. But in one State the political pendulum swung far to the Left. That was moonkissed California where Culbert Levy Olson, 62, started his State's first Democratic administration in 44 years. Governor Olson celebrated by pardoning the most famed prisoner...