Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agree. When the Whigs held their national convention in New York City in 1852, the sidewalks buzzed with popular talk of a new party. Editor Horace Greeley of the Tribune seriously pondered the future with his friend Alvan Earle Bovay, Ripon Whig. The stiff, dignified, stoop-shouldered lawyer from Wisconsin insisted a new party be formed on the slavery issue, suggested to Editor Greeley the name Republican. On March 20, 1854 when the Nebraska-Kansas Bill was pending in the Senate, Lawyer Bovay called a meeting of 58 persons at Ripon to unite as Republicans, to pledge themselves to fight...
Educational system has been attacked for the last 20 or 30 years throughout the country, Meiklejohn at Wisconsin, Holt at Rollins, the proposed Harvard plan, these characterize some of the movements under way to change the existing system...
...April blizzard Wisconsin held a referendum on the question of repealing its State Enforcement Act. The voters called for the repealer by a 142,000 majority. The Drys blamed the blizzard, saying that farmers had been kept from the polls. With its members singing "How Dry I Am!'' and "Sweet Adeline," the State Assembly repealed the enforcement act. The senate followed suit. Last week Governor Walter Jodok Kohler, "in fulfillment of the mandate of the people," signed the repealer...
Governor Kohler has been a wet-Dry, a dry-Wet, in politics. In approving the end of Wisconsin's enforcement he warned Wisconsinites not to be misled "into the belief that traffic in intoxicating liquors . . . has become lawful or that the saloon will return. The Constitution of the U. S., the Volstead Act, and the Jones Law are still in full force and effect...
...Wisconsin's action did not agitate U. S. Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran. The U. S., he said, has received little or no assistance from Wisconsin's authorities, has done practically all of such enforcement as Wisconsin...