Word: ilsley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reuss himself might stand to lose from higher taxes on the rich. As the scion of a Milwaukee banking family, he owns $183,000 worth of stock in the city's Marshall & Ilsley Bank. He has never been active in banking, however; after graduating from Harvard Law School in 1936, he enlisted in the Army as a private, won a Bronze Star in the crossing of the Rhine and returned to Milwaukee to enter law and politics. In McCarthy-era Wisconsin, he lost his first three major races (for Milwaukee mayor, state attorney general and the U.S. Senate) before...