Word: phils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Happy Days Are Here Again and Humming a Love Song (Victor, $1.25) - Phil Baker's accordion presents almost as much variety as a full-fledged orchestra...
...coax Philip LaFollette into standing for election to high State office. Second son of the late great Robert Marion LaFollette, brother of Wisconsin's Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") LaFollette, he has a name and a talent which might work political magic in his State. But Brother Phil, lawyer and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, short-time District Attorney of Dane County, whirlwind campaigner for Brother Bob, was in no hurry. He silenced "drift talk," insisted he was "too young" (he is now 33), kept Progressive leaders waiting for his services (TIME...
...announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Governor of Wisconsin in the September primary. His opponent would be Governor Walter Jodok Kohler, "stalwart'' (regular) Republican, plumbing fixture tycoon ("Kohler of Kohler''), candidate for a second term. Intense, eloquent, bushy-headed like his father, Brother Phil inaugurated his Progressive leadership by trying to drive a spike of corruption into the candidacy of Governor Kohler. Last year he signed a court complaint, helped to amass evidence, that Governor Kohler had grossly violated the Wisconsin Corrupt Practices Act by excessive campaign expenditures to secure the Republican nomination...
...week Governor Kohler went on trial at Sheboygan, after carrying his case in vain to the State Supreme Court on technicalities of jurisdiction (TIME, Feb. 17). The courtroom scene generated political impulses that fanned over the whole State. The trial marked the commencement of the 1930 campaign. If Brother Phil could put Governor Kohler out of office by this trial, it was agreed that a LaFollette would again be Governor of Wisconsin...
...GOVERNOR" into a valuable "tire cover," ruled it was no such thing. Again and again curious heads turned to the courtroom door, hoping to see Philip LaFollette march in, face his rival, give a touch of political drama to the scene. But the curious were disappointed. Shrewd, Brother Phil kept away from the trial, directed the prosecution from a distance...