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Word: wisconsin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...receive reporters in his underwear, reading a mystery novel. At various times he has played a ukulele, guitar, saxophone. The golf-bug has bitten him. Nothing is more fun for him than to roar out a lusty song (favorite: My Name Is Jon Jonson, I Come From Wisconsin), especially at formal dinners. At parties he sits on the floor if he can. When he drinks, it is not much; when he smokes, it is a Hatamen cigaret-cheap brand the coolies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Excellency in a Ricksha | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Wisconsin's Governor Julius Peter ("Julius the Bust") Heil, who has not made a notable success of governing his own State, astonished the nation by implicitly criticizing his neighbor, Michigan's good-godly Governor Luren Dickinson. Referring to the Chrysler automobile workers' strike, Governor Heil declared: "You've got to use strong methods. I would like to be the Governor of Michigan today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...replace Young, G.E. chose a handsome engineer-lawyer (B.S. in engineering from the University of Wisconsin, LL.B. from Fordham) named Philip D. Reed, who went to G.E. in 1926, worked mostly in the lamp department. Today Philip Reed is only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Bloodless Abdication | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...Colgate 6 Columbia 0 Auburn 13 Georgia 7 Pitt 7 Penn State 0 Stanford 7 California 13 Kansas State 0 Boston College 13 Texas Christian 20 Rice 14 Villanova 13 Manhattan 7 Baylor 14 Southern Methodist 20 Purdue 7 Indiana 0 Cregon State 7 UCLA 14 Minnesota 20 Wisconsin 7 Michigan State 14 Temple...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL SCORES | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

...COLGATE 0 0 0 0 COLUMBIA 0 0 0 0 PITTSBURGH 0 0 0 0 PENN STATE 7 7 0 0 KANSAS STATE 0 0 0 0 BOSTON COLLEGE 12 7 0 0 PURDUE 0 0 0 0 INDIANA 0 0 0 0 MINNESOTA 0 0 0 0 WISCONSIN...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUTSIDE SCORES | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

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