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Last spring young Lawyer Philip Fox La Follette, Republican Progressive, brought a court action against Governor Walter Jodok Kohler ("of Kohler," bathroom ceramics), to oust him for excessive campaign expenditures. The suit failed (TIME, May 26) but last September Lawyer La Follette defeated Governor Kohler in the gubernatorial primary. In November the electorate decreed young Phil should be governor...
Associates--Henry Lee Shattuck '01, treasurer of the University: Elmer Peter Kohler. Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry: George Howard Parker '87, professor of Zoology and director of the Zoological Laboratory: Edwin Francis Gay, professor of Economic History: Lionel Simeon Marks, professor of Mechanical Engineering: Ralph Barton Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy: Charles Kingsley Webster, professor of History: Arthur Meier Schlesinger, professor of History: Kenneth John Conant, '15, associate professor of Architecture: Robert Silliman Hillyer '17, assistant professor of English; and tutor in the Division of Modern Languages...
Last spring Philip Fox* ("Phil") La Follette, 33, Republican Progressive, brought a court action against Wisconsin's Governor Walter Jodok Kohler ("of Kohler," plumbing tycoon), Republican stalwart, to oust him for excessive campaign expenditures. The action failed (TIME, May 26). Last week Philip La Follette successfully disposed of Governor Kohler in another way when he defeated him in the Republican primary for the gubernatorial nomination by 120,000 votes. With the nomination equivalent to election "Phil" La Follette will enter the Madison State House just 30 years after his late great father, Robert Marion ("Fighting Bob") La Follette, to carry...
...Phil proved that the La Follette name is still potent in Wisconsin. With much of his father's gesturing manner, shockheaded appearance, oratorical skill he, supported by his elder brother, Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") La Follette, swept the state in a swift-paced campaign. He attacked Governor Kohler for being an ally of President Hoover's, "a friend of monopoly." Against him the stalwarts cried: "Dynasty! Oligarchy! Too much La Follette !" Much was made of unemployment and the industrial depression. After the primary Kohler managers explained their defeat: "The burden of carrying Hoover...
Herbert V. Kohler, vice president of Kohler Co. (plumbing): "Kohler Co. is maintaining its organization and its wage scale...