Word: mennen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Michigan. Republican Fred Alger and Democratic Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams battled each other in another hairbreadth affair. By the morning after, Alger held a 35,000 lead, and Soapy's only hope seemed to be in the lagging returns from some strong Democratic districts...
Should you receive letters of criticism because of your article [TIME, Sept. 15] on Michigan's great governor, G. Mennen Williams, pay no attention. You will know that it is a synthetic response, carefully organized by the Republican State Central Committee and not from the heart of the people . . . Governor Williams is extremely popular and will in all probability be reelected...
...handsome, square-shouldered man wearing a big, green, polka dot bow tie and a wide, bright, boyish grin. He stood astride the main exit, reaching out to shake hands with all who would come within his grasp. The smile and the green bow tie identified him as Gerhard Mennen Williams, governer of Michigan. "Look," murmured one woman to another as they pressed by, "he's getting grey hair already...
...made the kids laugh and Soapy would run me out. Luckily I had pull: father was a vestryman and he would get me back in." Father Henry P. Williams built up a comfortable income in the pickle business and in Detroit real estate. Mother Elma Williams is a Mennen, sharing with her brother control of the Mennen Co. (shaving cream and toiletries), worth an estimated $12 million. She had her own positive notions about bringing up her three sons, Mennen, Henry and Richard. "We used to wear our hair in those Dutch bobs." Hank recalls, "and we used to have...
...summers the family traveled widely, both in the U.S. and abroad. One summer the three boys were packed off to a ranch in Wyoming. There the cowboys dubbed little Dick "Suds." called Hank "Lather," and Mennen "Soapy." Much to Mrs. Williams' distress. Mennen's nickname stuck with him from that date...