Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since he stopped pretending to be a Republican (in 1934) and began running on a straight Progressive ticket, Wisconsin's ambitious young Governor Philip Fox La Follette has (1934, 1936) squeezed through with fewer votes than the total for his Democratic and Republican opponents. This year, while Governor La Follette was trying to hatch a national third party to coalesce liberals against reactionaries, Wisconsin's two-time Democratic State Treasurer Robert K. Henry hatched a coalition of Wisconsin's conservatives against Governor La Follette. An object lesson to all hopeful coalitionists was the result of Wisconsin...
Lawyer Henry entered both Republican and Democratic primaries, announcing that if he won both he would run for whichever party gave him the higher vote. (Wisconsin law provides that candidates cannot run under two labels.) This proposal angered both regular party organizations because it meant depriving one of them of a place on the ballot. The Republican organization put up Milwaukee Manufacturer Julius Heil. Democratic chieftains and the State New Deal machine got behind young Jerome Fox, who resigned his job as an HOLC attorney to make the race as a Roosevelt man. Coalitionist Henry, no New Dealer and deeming...
...psychiatrist, Donald Wilson Hastings, secured his M.D. at Wisconsin University in 1934 While his specialized training came from the Penn. Hospital for mental and Nervous Diseases and the Institute of the Penn, Hospital. In addition he was an instructor in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania...
Robert Waltor Moovs, La Crosse, Wisconsin--Central High School...
...Trowbridge Rogers, Appleton, Wisconsin--Appleton High School...