Word: heil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican candidates in many States, as it is in Washington for anti-New Dealers, Economy was Julius Heil's campaign watchword. After getting elected, with a working majority in both houses of the Legislature, he sat down to draft his budget. State government cost Wisconsin $71,600,000 during the last two years. Governor-elect Heil said he was going to cut that 15 or 20% for the next biennium...
When Governor Heil sat down to make good, he was confronted by estimates put in by department heads calling for appropriations totalling $96,600,000. It was then that Businessman Heil came face to face with the political fact that some of the biggest items of government cost nowadays are the hardest to reduce. For example: pensions, relief and welfare, highways, public education...
Businessman Heil began budget hearings in a mood of high scorn for the incompetence and extravagance of public officials. He asked President Clarence A. Dykstra (pronounced dike´-struh) of the University of Wisconsin-formerly Cincinnati's efficient city manager, with whom Governor La Follette replaced Republican Dr. Glenn Frank-for a breakdown showing the cost-per-student of each department in the university. He said that in his business, when a department was found inefficient, it was discontinued. Said he, "I want to know if there is a cancerous growth, and if there is, I want to cure...
...Heil's more politically experienced colleagues were worried by such high-handed talk, for its university is one of Wisconsin's great popular prides. They remonstrated with him, and at another budget hearing, on a teacher's retirement fund, Julius Heil showed he was learning his lesson. At first he flared up, demanded to know why there should be such a thing as a teachers' retirement fund. "What do they do for me when I get old?" he snorted. "They don't hold...
...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...