Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to recently released figures. Harvard ranks twelfth in the country as far as the number of full-time students is concerned, and twentieth in the number of all resident students. Outclassed by California, Columbia, Minnesota, Illinois, New York U., Ohio State, Michigan, Wisconsin, U. of Washington, Texas, and C. C. N. Y., Harvard has a measly 8,111 full-timers compared with California's 22,122, and Columbia's 14,662. In the whole country, there are 146,224 full-time students, and 1,140,786 resident students...
...examine it, I find the profits are to be divided 90% for Arthur and 10% for me." Mr. Brisbane was his boss's publishing pioneer in Washington, where he acquired the Times, then sold it to Hearst, in Milwaukee, where a similar maneuver was executed with the Evening Wisconsin (now the Wisconsin News), and in Chicago, where Arthur Brisbane helped found the American...
...Madison's and Wisconsin's two first citizens, living in the proudest houses in town, Governor La Follette and President Frank politely called on each other, pleasantly nodded at Badger football games. Governor Phil, worldly wise, did not share the resentment of many a rural legislator at President Frank's suavity, his well pressed clothes, the fact that he spoke with a soft cultivation belying his birthplace, Queen City, Mo. And as Phil had been the youngest U. S. Governor, so Glenn Frank had been (until Chicago's Hutchins) the youngest chief executive of a major...
What Glenn Frank thought of Phil La Follette was, and has remained, his secret. Wiseacres gossiped that Phil was hurt when, after his defeat in 1932, Glenn Frank seemed to get along just as well with Democratic Governor Albert G. Schmedeman. To a Wisconsin Progressive, Republicans and Democrats are alike "reactionaries." In 1933 Mr. & Mrs. Frank called on Mr. & Mrs. La Follette, who then lived right across the street. Their courtesy was not returned. Last year at a Lincoln Day Republican rally in Chicago, ambitious President Frank, who has been sporadically mentioned as Presidential timber, made his first big blunder...
...Equity Corp. to make Southwestern make the $2,400,000 loan. Equity's profit in the deal was $425,000. Of the excursion of Investment Truster Milton and his associates into General American, old Congressman Sabath snapped: "They were not speculators. They were sure shot boys." Cried Wisconsin's Congressman Thomas David Patrick O'Malley about apparent discrepancies in testimony: "I think there is perjury going on . . . and, by God, I'm going to get to the bottom...