Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...federal storage depots as of Dec. 1 were 12,500 tons of dried milk, 17,000 tons of butter, 89,000 tons of cheese. But politicos from dairy-farm states predictably joined Republican Burdick in bipartisan booing at Benson's announcement. ''A shocking injustice!" cried Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire. "A mistake!" snapped Vermont Republican George Aiken, an old Benson defender. Said Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey: "Mr. Benson has taken the place of Scrooge...
Died. Robert Carl Zuppke, 78, alltime great football coach (University of Illinois, 1913-41); of cancer; in Champaign, Ill. Sharp-witted "Zup," German immigrant, played football (but won no letter) at the University of Wisconsin, at Illinois created teams that for 15 years were challengers for the Big Ten championship (overall record: 131 victories, 81 defeats, 12 ties, 7 conference titles...
...Bricklayer Gray has long been a dissenter among labor leaders. He backed Eisenhower for President in both 1952 and 1956. During the great McCarthy noise, he was the only labor leader of note to go on record with a resounding good word for the late Senator from Wisconsin. But never had Gray dissented with such devastating effect as he did in urging a labor-sponsored wage freeze just as labor leaders were getting ready for a big wage-boost offensive...
...Jersey's cautious, scholarly H. Alexander Smith, 77, moderate Republican and his party's second-ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (after Wisconsin's Wiley). The party and the Government need "younger people," Smith explained. His long-expected decision threatened to bring on the kind of political dogfight that gentle Alex Smith always tried to avoid. Already announced for his seat is boutonniered
...Edward Kelleher, head of Chicago's Municipal Court Psychiatric Institute, flatly called Gein a schizophrenic, considered his case "unparalleled in modern history." At week's end Eddie Gein was committed to Wisconsin's Central State Hospital (for the criminal insane) for observation...