Word: phil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wisconsin, Democrats were dismayed by news that the La Follettes, Governor Phil and Senator Bob, will not as in 1932 support Democratic Senator Francis Ryan Duffy for re-election late this summer. This year, the La Follettes let it be known that they will help the winner of the Progressive nomination-Representative Thomas R. Amlie or Herman Ekern, onetime State Attorney General-after next month's primary. Possible result: a special appearance in Wisconsin by Franklin Roosevelt in behalf of Senator Duffy...
...Executioner Phil Hanna of Illinois went to Milan. There last week, still sneering, Killer Chebatoris took the plunge that broke his neck. Obituary by Michigan's Murphy: "Michigan has led the world in the civilized attitude toward criminals. The hanging today was a blot on our century-old tradition, but I hope that it will have the effect of helping to abolish capital punishment from all the States in the Union...
...this summer are some 50 famed legitimate stage stars, including Helen Hayes. Walter Hampden. Willie and Eugene Howard, Jane Cowl, Richard Bennett, Pauline Lord, Fred Stone, Eugenie Leontovich, Ethel Barrymore, and such oddities as Author Sinclair Lewis in his own It Can't Happen Here (Cohasset, Mass.); Accordionist Phil Baker in Idiot's Delight (Dennis, Mass...
...Amory '39, Charles L. Burwell '39, Oliver P. Bolton '39, Clarence E. Boston '39, Morton L. Freed '39, Robert L. Green '39, F. Austin Harding '39, Richard H. Sullivan '39, Mason Fernard '40, Theodore L. Hazlett Jr., '40, Frederick Holdsworth '40, James D. Lightbody '40, Douglas Mercer '40, and Phil C. Neal...
Meantime Governor Phil, the recognized organizing brain of the National Progressives, held an equally significant meeting with Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Governor Elmer A. Benson. Occasion was a barbecue supper for the two third-party chieftains and some 40 of their friends and associates at a pleasant farmhouse near Hudson, Wis. The meeting on the Potomac looked like simple Roosevelt curiosity. The barbecue on the Hudson farm looked like the beginning of a national alliance, or at least of local modus vivendi, between two once faithful Roosevelt allies...