Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that if President Eisenhower does not announce his intentions by Feb. 1, Knowland will become an active candidate and enter Republican primaries. Knowland's timetable has a firm basis in political logic: if he is to get anywhere, he must enter certain state primaries, e.g., New Hampshire and Wisconsin, that have early filing deadlines...
...N.A.M. Chief Cola G. Parker, 65, retired president and board chairman of papermakers Kimberly-Clark (Kleenex) is Wisconsin-born, Indiana-reared. He first made good as a New York corporation lawyer; at 47 he went back to Wisconsin to make good all over again as an industrialist. He joined Kimberly-Clark of Neenah, Wis. in 1937 as financial vice president, became its president in 1942. chairman in 1953, and quadrupled the corporation's sales. Parker served the Eisenhower Administration as a member of the Commission on Foreign Economic Policy and as adviser to the U.S. delegation at the GATT...
City Fire Chief Henry E. Kilfoyle last night offered free rides to "any student that wants one" in the engine which fire mechanic Justin C. McCarthy is driving to Kenosha, Wisconsin for repairs. During the three-day trek, the apparatus will pass through New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Chicago...
Lynch isn't quite sure that the engine will make it all the way to Kenosha on the first try, but he vowed that "we'll send the rescue squad after the old pumper if she breaks down, and another engine to get the kids to Kenosha. It's Wisconsin or bust on this trip...
...first overt entrance into national politics came in 1924 when its convention passed a resolution backing Wisconsin's Senator Robert LaFollette who was running on a third-party, Progressive ticket. That same year, the AFL drew up a program for national legislation which contained many planks not connected directly with the labor movement. LaFollette's defeat convinced many of the Federation's leaders that Gompers was right after all, and that their organization entered national campaigns at the risk of getting its ears pinned back...