Word: heils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...their first official meeting, when President Dykstra presented his budget request, the Governor questioned his figures, asked for "simple arithmetic." Later he knocked $1,000,000 out of the budget. President Dykstra expressed the hope that the Legislature would restore some of the cut; Governor Heil accused him of spreading "propaganda." Last spring the Governor sounded off on the subject of the university as follows...
...with their Legislatures. Texas' Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits") O'Daniel, having surprisingly turned into a sincere if nai've executive who could get nowhere against professional obstructors, sent his Legislature home from Austin with a near-zero record. Wisconsin's ludicrous Julius ("The Just") Heil in Madison was entangled in his own bumblings and the snares of Republican legislators who connived to load him with all the blame for their sorry record, adjourn with the least possible damage to their party. New York's Democrat Herbert Lehman recalled his Legislature to Albany to repair...
When plump, ruddy Julius Peter Heil, self-made industrialist, became Governor of Wisconsin last January, his backers had their fingers crossed. Each time unschooled Julius Heil opened his mouth, they held their breaths. Having no such misgivings himself, Governor Heil opened his mouth almost at once to denounce one of Wisconsin's prides, its State University...
...Wisconsin chuckled as university students retaliated in their fashion. The Wisconsin Octopus, campus funnypaper, published Poor Julius' Almanack for i$3Q-"Being Proverbs and Preachments, Suitable for Committing to Memory - These Most Faithfully Set Down from the Publick Utterances of Your Friend and Ours, the Reticent Mr. Heil." Excerpts...