Word: waukesha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manufacturers represented were Autocar, Baker-Raulang, Brockway, Diamond T, Divco-Twin, Dodge, Federal, Ford, Four Wheel Drive, Fruehauf Trailers, General Motors, International Harvester, Mack, Marmon-Herrington, Pak-Age-Car, Reo, Sterling, Studebaker, Truck-tor, Walker, Walter and White. Motor-makers were Aircooled Motors Corp., Buda, Continental, Cummins, Hercules, and Waukesha. Represented, too, were some 75 body, wheel, accessory and fuel companies...
...appointment as athletic director. By this time Golemgeske had changed sides, charged that Director Meanwell had offered him a job and two major letters if he would circulate a petition for Spears' dismissal, also accused him of giving him a swig of whiskey after a 1935 game. Waukesha alumni, fearing that their native son was the football of opposing groups, engaged a lawyer, sent him to Madison. Promptly Meanwell, known as a confirmed "dry" for 25 years, marched before the athletic council, denied promising Golemgeske a job, admitted giving him the dregs of a 4-oz. whiskey bottle. Instead...
Last autumn Wisconsin had a disastrous football season, winning one game, losing seven. There were rumors that Coach Spears would be fired. After the season, 220-lb. Captain-elect John Golemgeske of Waukesha cornered Director Meanwell, said he represented 18 squad members who desired Spears' dismissal. The "Little Doctor" told him to present it in writing. Soon afterward, the football squad celebrated its poor season at a local roadhouse. Golemgeske dragged his supporters into the men's room, put the question to them. Seen there by an assistant coach, he was taken before Spears who plied him with...
Assembled v. Manufactured. A common characteristic of the majority of truckmakers is that their product is assembled. Motors may be bought from Hercules Motors, Lycoming Manufacturing, Continental Motors or Waukesha, wheels from Budd, axles from Timken, brakes from Bendix. Diamond-T is the fastest selling assembled truck. Stewart and Federal are both assembled. "Assembled" is a fighting word in the truck in- dustry because companies that machine most of their own parts look down their noses at the assemblers, terming their own product "manufactured." This incenses the "assembled" truckmen, for the reason that all motor vehicles-trucks, buses and passenger...
...women of Waukesha. the President of the United States has been insulted by a previous speaker on this program in a reprehensible and personal way; and while I may differ with Democratic policy, I will not stand for that kind of attack. I therefore refuse to speak upon this platform and I will return to Waukesha at a later date...