Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more state-Wisconsin-withdrew last week from, the field of Prohibition enforcement, handed the drying-up job back to the U. S., joined New York, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, on theWet sidelines...
Fortnight ago, the Senate confirmed Irvine Luther Lenroot as a Judge of the U. S. Court of Customs & Patent Appeals. No senatorial courtesy was accorded this onetime Senator. His nomination was bitterly fought because, once a Wisconsin Liberal, he had turned Conservative, had hindered the Senate's Oil Scandals investigation, had lobbied for power interests. His confirmation by the Senate was first-class news. Like all Senate votes on presidential nominations, the vote was taken in "executive session," behind closed doors, secretly...
Senator Elaine of Wisconsin forced the secrecy issue by offering for publication in the Congressional Record the Lenroot roll-call as compiled by Pressman Mallon. Up rose Pennsylvania's haggard, young Senator Reed to demand enforcement of the Senate's secrecy rule. Complained he bitterly: "There is some hypocrite here who prattles out loud about law enforcement and in secrecy does what he dare not do publicly and gives out information." He called for the expulsion of any Senators who had given Pressman Mallon his in formation, announced a meeting of the Rules Committee to deal with this matter...
...ancient custom and courtesy, though not by rule, one representative at a time of the four great press associations?United, Associated, Universal, International?is allowed the privilege of the Senate floor. Chairman Moses of the Rules Committee, by way of punishment, ordered this privilege for the United Press suspended. Wisconsin's Senator La Follette, eager to press the issue to the maximum discomfort of Republican Conservatives, pointed out that the Senate rules granted no floor privileges to any pressmen. When Senator La Follette later saw Fraser Edwards of the Universal Service weaving industriously about the floor, he made a point...
...became the "Big Nine" last week when members of the Great Western Athletic Conference ousted the University of Iowa on charges of professional athletics. The "Big Ten" used to be Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Chicago, Northwestern, Indiana, Purdue, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio State. Iowa, stunned, waited further developments, threatened exposure of professionalism in other "Big Ten" universities...