Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When plump, ruddy Julius Peter Heil, self-made industrialist, became Governor of Wisconsin last January, his backers had their fingers crossed. Each time unschooled Julius Heil opened his mouth, they held their breaths. Having no such misgivings himself, Governor Heil opened his mouth almost at once to denounce one of Wisconsin's prides, its State University...
WASHINGTON--A Congressional source said tonight that midwestern liberals, under the leadership of Wisconsin's La Follette brothers, have agreed tentatively to throw their political weight behind a move to get a liberal Presidential candidate in one of the major parties...
...followed this with graduate work at Wisconsin and University of Chicago, where he coached football under Amos Alonzo Stagg. A Ph.D. thesis on Illinois school finance in 1924 started Floyd Reeves toward national renown. He made 400 surveys of school systems and colleges, became the No. 1 U. S. expert on college administration, directed a survey of University of Chicago, where he is still a professor, that shaped the Hutchins plan...
...object," shouted Wisconsin's young Bob La Follette...
Last week Otto Struve had a triumphant day. On a sugarloaf-shaped mountain in southwestern Texas, Astronomer Struve. already director of the University of Chicago's famed Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, took on an additional job: he officially accepted the directorship of the University of Texas' new McDonald Observatory, which houses the second largest operating telescope in the world. Its mirror is 82 inches across, just under seven feet...