Word: madison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Progressives at Madison...
Last week, University of Wisconsin's tanbark-floored livestock pavilion at Madison was the scene of a mass meeting which may or may not become retrospectively as important to U. S. history as the convention in Ripon. Into the pavilion swarmed some 5,000 invited guests, for whose benefit its interior had been deodorized, its gallery strung with U. S. and Wisconsin flags and with banners bearing the strange device of a cross within a circle, a new American shibboleth. Ushers were Wisconsin football players wearing red sweaters with huge white Ws. Originator, organizer and chief speaker...
...nights. Gist of last fortnight's radio speeches was: 1) that both La Follettes had broken with Franklin Roosevelt when he hopefully cut down on spending a year ago, and 2) that a message of first national importance would be forthcoming at last week's meeting in Madison...
Harlow departs for the University of Wisconsin at Madison today. He will be there May sixth and seventh to assist coach Harry Stuheidreher in teaching cross blocking and single wing attack...
...Discussed legislation to divorce marketing from other phases of the petroleum industry. This is supposed to be a New Deal objective as one result of the conviction, in Madison, Wis. four months ago, of 16 major oil companies and 30 of their officers of fixing the market price on petroleum products at the expense of the public. A Senate subcommittee is now considering a bill introduced by Senator Guy M. Gillette of Iowa to divorce oil production and sale much as the New Deal divorced banking and underwriting in 1933. Last week President J. Howard...