Word: phils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Last week Son 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...
...present to share the brother's festivities was their mother, elderly, fine faced Mrs. Belle Case La Follette, who accompanied, advised, both "Fighting Bob" and "Young Bob" when they won elections. She did advise Son Phil, at a family gathering in Atlantic City last spring. All summer she has been closeted in Washington writing a biography of her husband...
...District Attorney, voluble orator. His friends called him "the Al Smith of Detroit." He polled 106,203 votes. Recalled Mayor Bowles, who automatically ran to succeed himself, polled 93,772. The News-Free Press-Recall Committee candidate, George Engel, received 85,556. Onetime Mayor John W. Smith, and one Phil Raymond. Communist, also ran. Mayor Murphy's campaign included promises to aid unemployment by public building and the erection of "flophouses" for the city's indigent. By law, no parties were represented in Detroit elections, the candidates being nominated by petitions of the citizenry...
...William ("Young") Stribling (188 Ib.) of Georgia: a fight (billed as "World's Heavyweight Championship") with Phil Scott, 206-lb. Britisher; in the second round, by a knockout, after Scott had been down for three counts of nine in the first round; in Wimbledon stadium, England...