Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wisconsin, Democrats were dismayed by news that the La Follettes, Governor Phil and Senator Bob, will not as in 1932 support Democratic Senator Francis Ryan Duffy for re-election late this summer. This year, the La Follettes let it be known that they will help the winner of the Progressive nomination-Representative Thomas R. Amlie or Herman Ekern, onetime State Attorney General-after next month's primary. Possible result: a special appearance in Wisconsin by Franklin Roosevelt in behalf of Senator Duffy...
...turkeys in Christendom could not have consumed the grasshoppers available in the U. S. last week. Westward from Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois to Washington, Oregon and California, northward from Texas to the Dakotas, the 'hopper wave was at its crest in 24 States. In New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle the probable crop damage was estimated at $30,000,000. In the Dakotas, the visitation was the worst in a long roll of such visitations (topped, since the 1880s by the Great Swarm of 1937). Iowa was not so badly off, because spring rains had killed the eggs deposited...
...already been renominated in his Democratic district); Texas' Martin Dies, Joseph J. Mansfield, Fritz Lanham; Maine's Ralph O. Brewster; Massachusetts' Allen T. Treadway; Michigan's Clare E. Hoffman. House As of course included such stalwart laborites as-Texas' Maverick, California's Voorhis, Wisconsin's Boileau, Illinois' Kent Keller, Iowa's and Harry Hopkins' Otha Wearin, who was recently defeated for the Democratic Senatorial nomination. Also blessed by the League was Maryland's Representative David J. Lewis, who hopes to replace D-Man Millard Tydings...
Before the State Board of Education had appeared Dr. William Card, onetime teacher at University of Wisconsin, now an organizer of the American Federation of Teachers. Dr. Card complained that spectacled, able young high-school teacher Stanley McMahon, president of a new teachers' union, and Union Member James Rowbottom had been fired from their Gilbert school jobs. Since 1931, said he, Gilbert's school board has fired 50 teachers "to make room for horsetrading and political favors." He found that all the Range towns had a teacher exchange system "more or less on the plan...
...much the same reasons that farmer? around Hershey, Pa. ejected Hershey Chocolate Corp. sit-downers last year (TIME, April 19, 1937), the Wisconsin farmers were concerned lest the creamery pay less for their milk if it had to pay more for labor. They forced seven union employes to quit, ordered 15 others to sign a pledge: "I hereby agree not to join any organization bordering on or pertaining to labor unions." Vexed, NLRB's Wisconsin Regional Director Nathaniel S. Clark vowed he would not be "buffaloed by a bunch of farmers," rooted out a Wagner Act section which makes...