Word: mennen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skeleton in Michigan's family closet popped into the open last week when Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams' 15-year-old daughter Nancy penned for her school paper the hot scoop on why her daddy always wears a bow tie: Soapy is sloppy with soup. At one dinner with the late Governor Frank Murphy, young Pol Williams eased himself into a dining-room chair, sloshed his four-in-hand in the mushroom soup, stood up, dripped more soup down his shirt front. Mother Williams rushed for cleaning gear, allowed the rolls to burn in the confusion, choking...
...city's failure to hold on to the auto industry or attract replacements, many Detroit businessmen blame United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther and his close ally, Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams. Reuther, the arguments run, discourages industry by pushing labor costs higher and higher, and Democrat Williams discourages it by committing himself to Big Labor and the ever higher taxes of the welfare state. Says outspoken Harvey Campbell, vice president of the powerful Detroit Board of Commerce: "Businessmen won't talk about it in public. They are afraid of reprisal. They stand behind me and cheer...
Since 1948, his close alliance with U.A.W.-C.I.O. President Walter Reuther has helped G. Mennen Williams overcome the violent opposition of Michigan industrialists, win five elections for governor. But in a national presidential election...
...heir to the soap millions of Mennen Co., Williams finds precedent for his presidential hopes in the political success of another Democrat born to wealth. Writes he: "Many younger businessmen who would like to participate actively in the Democratic Party do not do so because they are afraid to. In some areas the young man in a profession or in business is ostracized if he becomes or remains a Democrat. He is looked on as a traitor to his class. This epithet was applied to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and I have heard this foolishness applied...
While Michigan's bow-tied Governor G. (for Gerhard) Mennen Williams flitted around the U.S. adding polish to his presidential sheen, the man who minded the store for him over the last three years was polished, personable Lieutenant Governor Philip A. Hart. Last week 45-year-old Phil Hart allowed that his turn had come to leave Michigan to get a new sheen of his own. Summoning newsmen to his Lansing office, Hart announced that he would be the Williams-backed Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Charles E. Potter...