Word: wisconsin
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...York's professionally loud Hamilton Fish cried: "A dagger at the throat of Japan!" Wisconsin's Stephen Bolles said: "A small kumquat in the hand of Japan...
Last week he was getting more encouragement. Two midwest institutions (University of Wisconsin, Kansas State College of Agriculture) are checking the News experiments. In Tennessee tests have started on a herd of prize county-owned cattle. Raisers of horses, rabbits, mink, foxes, guinea pigs, hogs have asked for directions...
Other witness-of-the-week was Thomas R. (for nothing) Amlie, the Red rover from Wisconsin named by Franklin Roosevelt for the Interstate Commerce Commission, chiefly to provoke an airing of that sombre body (TIME, Feb. 6). Lumbering, loquacious Mr. Amlie conducted his self-defense before a Senate subcommittee with heavy, self-centred humor. He said he had always "hoped to make good in some big way," and now he had done so-"in the field of incompetency." Not since the appointment of Louis Dembitz Brandeis to the Supreme Court, said he, had there been such opposition as there...
Senators wanted to know if, as the Wisconsin Legislature had averred, he was Communistic. "I am not a Communist," Tom Amlie said. "My differences with Communism are fundamental. . . . To charge me with being a Communist . . . is just as ridiculous as charging Glenn Frank." Fear of fascism in the U. S., he said, was his reason for advocating some form of democratic collectivism involving production control...
Sheldon's measurements which total 10,000 from students at Chicago, North-western, Wisconsin, and other small Western coleges as well have led to "very much the same results" that Hooton exposed in his latest work on "Crime...