Word: heils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sport of Governors-appointing honorary colonels to their staffs for kudos (but no pay)-was carried to a peak of absurdity by Kentucky's Ruby Laffoon (1931-35), who appointed 11,352 colonels. Currently Wisconsin's new Julius ("The Just") Heil leads all contenders with 57 new colonels, most of them affluent, full-blooded men like himself, many of them his cronies at the board and bar of the Milwaukee Athletic Club. Last week State Senator Phil Nelson, a puckish Progressive, gave public cognizance to the Heil colonels by offering a resolution (promptly pigeonholed) which would empower Governor...
...Court upheld a Heil motion that, in delegating such loose fiscal powers to the Emergency Board, the legislature had acted unconstitutionally...
Phil La Follette wished to avoid attending Julius Heil's inaugural, but the latter insisted on his presence so, before sailing to inspect Europe, he went through with it. He coached the stubby, awkward industrialist in his platform maneuvers and responses. He chatted with him animatedly and tried to look interested when Julius Heil orated: "We want peace and harmony, we want prosperity...
...Julius Heil's hairy hands were sore and swollen from too much handshaking after his inaugural. He soaked them in basins for the news cameras and spent his first few days in office making sure his son Joseph had everything under control at the 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...
From Oregon to Pennsylvania, from Rhode Island's pipe-smoking scion William H. Vanderbilt to Minnesota's boyish Harold Stassen, keynote of the gubernatorial inaugurations popping over the 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...