Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press, the name of Frank Murphy stood beside such others as Solicitor General Stanley Reed, Federal Judges Sam Gilbert Bratton (onetime U. S. Senator from New Mexico), Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. of Houston, Texas, Florence Allen of Columbus, Law Professors Felix Frankfurter of Harvard, Lloyd Garrison of Wisconsin...
...very anxious to know . . ." sarcastically murmured Senator McNary, [whether] we are to follow the leadership of the Senator from Wisconsin. . . . I have felt since the capitulation [on the Court Bill], under the management of our able Vice President that we would probably adjourn ... by the fifth of August. ... I doubt that he [Senator La Follette] spoke the voice of the President...
...week-end guests on the Potomac, the President chose three Possibilities for 1940: Senate Leader Barkley (see p. 10) and two Progressive La Follette Brothers, Senator Robert and Wisconsin's Governor Philip...
Having nearly exhausted his original $55,000 appropriation, Senator Robert Marion La Follette last week asked the Senate for another $50,000 to carry on the work of his Civil Liberties Committee. As a sample of the Committee's work the shrewd little Wisconsin Progressive also sent the Senate a report on the Memorial Day massacre in which ten men were fatally shot outside the gates of Republic Steel's South Chicago plant (TIME, June 7). After the open hearings in Washington and the showing of the famed Paramount newsreel of the riot, it was obvious whom...
...Wisconsin's new law offers a sort of personal receivership to debtors earning less than $2,400 a year. By applying to the District Court the debtor may protect himself from garnishee actions for a period of two years during which a referee designated by the court supervises paying off his bills in installments, sees to it that he is allowed enough of his earnings to feed and care for his dependents...