THE WEEK IN THE CAPITAL
Rubin, Morris H.
The Week In The Capitol [BY MORRIS H. SUBIN] GOV. HEIL'S complete about-face on the business of abandoning branch offices of the state highway commission represented a real sock in the jaw for...
...Latest to withdarw his name from consideration was Rep...
...Heil, who once gloated that be intended to go down in hisory as the man who beat both LaPolletles, has removed himself from consideration by announcing his plans to seek a second term in the executive office...
...Plans for a statewide rally of Young Progressives will be formulated at a meeting of the organization's executive board at the Hotel Athern, Oshkosh, Apr...
...Result: The whole scheme, about which so many economy platitudes had been shouted by administration spokesmen, was dropped completely with the comment that other "economies" In the highway commission no longer made abandonment of the branch offices necessary...
...Rose Schuster, vice president...
...Wis—The Racine Central Trades and Labor Council recently adopted a resolution demanding an end to strife between the CIO and AFL and calling on President William Green of the AFL to make further efforts to bring about peace in labor's ranks...
...But instead of acclaim there was a crescendo of protest from the cities and districts involved...
...Frank B. Keefe, Oshkosh, who disavowed any intention of running for the senate in a recent statement...
...19 in the ciubrooms of the Amarican Legion...
...Chief issue at the convention will be the usual squabble over whether the convention should or should not endorse single candidates for each slate and congressional office...
...Bessie Currier, treasurer, and Mrs...
...Robert K. Henry, Jefferson banker, virtually ended speculation about the likelihood that he might run against Sen...
...These appointments bring the total to 123 colonels appointed by Heil thus far...
...Heil trotted along in agreement, having great visions of popular acclaim for his "economy" program...
...S. senate, in addition to the unexpired portion of his father's term to which he was elected in 1925...
...Heil kept himself occupied in Milwaukee, but when he did return to the capitol...
...Frey slipped away for his second vacation of the winter in Florida...
...Edith Dauplaise, secretary...
...7. District and county officials of " ung Progressive clubs have been Invited specifically to attend the executive board conference, but attendance will be open to all Young Progressives...
...George Norris of Nebraska and Sen...
...Just a year ago Wisconsin's La Follette was voted the most industrious member of the senate, regardless of age, in a poll of correspondents conducted by Life magazine...
...Hilda Tanner, Superior, was elected chairman of the Progressive Women's organization at a recent meeting here...
...Meanwhile, Bob La Follette won new honors for Wisconsin in the nation's capital when more than 100 newspaper correspondents voted him the "ideal United States senator" among senators not more than 45 years of age...
...Hell...
...Chairman of the statewide organization is Tom Fairchild, Portage, son of Justice Edward T. Fair-child of the Wisconsin supreme court...
...Six more colonels were added to Wisconsin's military establishment during the past two weeks by Gov...
...Republicans will assemble for their second convention in five months on May 30 at a place not yet designated when this column was written...
...The heat became unendurable...
...Superior Women Elect New Officers, Plan Party SUPERIOR, Wis.—Mrs...
...And Gov...
...he was stampeded with loudly protesting delegations...
...HEIL'S complete about-face on the business of abandoning branch offices of the state highway commission represented a real sock in the jaw for August C. Frey, the governor's $5.000-a-year efficiency expert who runs the so-called research bureau with an iron fist...
...all of Milwaukee: Juan Trippe, New York City, and Earl Le Plant, Sturgeon Bay...
...It was Frey who hatched the scheme of wiping out the district offices and then splashed the story in the newspapers before the situation had been analyzed completely...
...Robert Wagner of New York among the most intelligent...
...One by one the prospective Republican candidates for the U. S senate seat now occupied by Bob LaPollette are dropping out of the race...
...The newly decorated colonels are Frank L. Greenya, Sidney J. Herzberg, Eugene G. Trimberger, and Robert H. Hanke...
...The same poll ranked him with Sen...
...Racine AFL Urges Harmony in Labor RACINE...
...The senator, now 45 years old, has completed two full terms in the L...
...LaFollette when he told friends and newspaper men at the Republican convention at LaCros.se that he had no intention of trying to unseat the Progressive senator...
...Other officers elected were Mrs...
...Plans were made for a card party to be held Apr...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 14
