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IssueVol. 004 Issue 009 (March 2 1940)
IssueVol. 004 Issue 010 (March 9 1940)
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Paid articleBOB ASKS SLASH IN FARM INTEREST RATES
Bob Asks Slash In Farm Interest Kates Farm State Leaders Offer Plan to Assist Agricultural Debtors Immediate and Effective Relief for Mortgage-Ridden Farmers Is Goal of Measure (Text of Statement...
Paid articlePHIL URGES YOUNG PEOPLE TO ABANDON 'FASHIONABLE ALOOFNESS' FROM POLITICS
Phil Urges Young People to Abandon 'Fashionable Aloofness' From Politics Get Into Fight Before It Is Too Late, He W arm Youth NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Philip P. La Follette challenged the young men of...
Paid articleSTATE POLITICS
Revell, Aldric
State Politics Handy Speechmaker Argument in Taxi Frank Platform IN the unfortunate days *head, every citizen will be subjected to short-arm political harrangues on the streets, in taxicabs. in...
Paid articleKYLE EXPOSES REPUBLICAN PENSION PLEDGE BETRAYAL
Kyle Exposes Republican Pension Pledge Betrayal Chairman Scans Revord\ of Performance for ! Aged BEAVER DAM, Wis. — Republican performances in the field of old age pensions is one continuous story...
Paid articleREPORT ALFONSI, GRAUNKE MAY BE CANDIDATES
Report Alfonsi, Graunke May Be Candidates POLITICAL circles heard last week reports of two more potential candidacies for the Progressive gubernatorial nomination. Mentioned as possible candidates...
Paid articleRACINE COUNTY GROUP GETS OFF TO FLYING START
Racine County Group Gets Off to Flying Start RACINE, Wis.—Racine county Progressives staged an enthusiastic organization meeting here last week with Phil La Follette, Asscmblymun Paul Alfonsi,...
Paid articleCIGARET TAXES TAP WISCONSIN FOR $1,500,000
Cigaret laxes Tap Wisconsin For $1,500,000 WISCONSIN'S cigaret tax. levied by the present Republican ad-| ministration, has taken more jthan $1,500,000 out of the pockets of ! the state's...
Paid articleLOCALITIES GET IOU INSTEAD OF ROAD AIDS
Localities Get IOU Instead of Road Aids GOP Regime Again Fails lo Meet Legal Obligations WISCONSIN'S Republican state administration failed again last week to meet fiancial obligations legally due...
Paid articleCARL M. GRIMSTAD, FORMER ASSEMBLYMAN, IS DEAD
CarlM.Grimstad, Former Assemblyman, Is Dead Pneumonia Fatal At Mt. Horeb Home Wednesday, Age 83 MT. HOREB, Wis—Carl M. Grimstad, 83, retired farmer, well-known Mt. Horeb resident and former...
Paid articleSMALL INCOMES CARRY GOP TAX BURDEN, CHARGE
Small Incomes Carry GOP Tax Burden, Charge SEN. FRED M. RISSER. Madison struck out last week at the Republican administration's "loading of $600,000 in new taxes on th« backs of the very low-paid...
Paid articleWRITER BRANDS JULIUS HEIL AS POOR GOVERNOR
Writer Brands Julius Heil As Poor Governor RAY TUCKER, nationally-syndicated Washington columnist, reported last week that two Republican governors, Heil of Wisconsin and Dickinson of Michigan, are...
Paid articleWHAT HAPPENED TO GRAFT CHARGES TOLD BY SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR FOR STATE
Parker, Cedric
What Happened to Graft Charges Told by Special Investigator for State Ex-District Attorney's Case Shifted from Attorney General to Bar Commissioners, Atty. Otto Christenson Discloses By CEDRIC...
Paid articleZINDARS FACES NEW WARRANTS AFTER JOB QUIZ
Zindars Faces New Warrants After Job Quiz State to Join Inquiry Into Job Sale Charges DEPUTY ATTY. GEN. J. WARE RECTOR announced last week that his office would take part in prosecuting Elmer...
Paid articleSAGA OF AMERICAN ENDS AS 1,800 ATTEND LEVITAN FUNERAL RITES IN CAPITOL
Revell, Aldric
Saga of American Ends as 1,800 A ttend Levitan Funeral Rites in Capitol 'Was Great American Jew,'' Rabbi Declares in Tribute By ALDRIC REVELL THE saga of an American ended last week, Uncle Sol...
Paid article139 CANDIDATES ASK CONVENTION DELEGATE POSTS
139 Candidates Ask Convention Delegate Posts Presidential Pr i m a r i e s Are Scheduled for April 2 COMPLETE list of 139 candidates for delegates to Democratic and Republican national conventions...
Paid articleAPPLETON LABOR PLANS DRIVE IN CITY CAMPAIGN
Appleton Labor Plans Drive in City Campaign APPLETON', Wis.—Louis Weber, president of the Trades and Labor council of this city, has announced that there will be a political mass meeting in the...
Paid articleHEIL RECALL PLAN DROPPED BY COMMITTEE
Heil Recall Plan Dropped By Committee 60,000 Names Short of Goal As Deadline Nears Hugo P. Schumacher, Madison, chairman of the Heil Recall committee, announced last week that the committee has...
Paid articleSEES POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FREEDOM CUT
Sees Political and Economic Freedom Cut Political and economic freedom ic being increasingly restricted in America by the spreading control of government agencies and by the domination of...
Paid articleNEWSPAPERS ARE NOW BIG BUSINESS, ANG TELLS WAGE DIVISION
Newspapers Are Now Big Business, ANG Tells Wage Division Are Run For Profits, View of News Guild Can Lay No Claim to Being Service Establishments, Charge WASHINGTON. D. C—Newspapers are operated...
Paid articleTHE EDITOR SAYS
Evjue, William T.
The Editor Says -By WILLIAM 1. EVJUEr(E Hearst papers are again indulging in a favorite pastime,— attacking Wisconsin as a state that is unfriendly to business and one where confiscatory taxes...
Paid articleLA FOLLETTE, OTHER SOLONS, DESCRIBE BILL TO EASE DEBT LOAD ON U. S. FARMS
La Follette, Other Solons, Describe Bill To Ease Debt Loadon VS. Farms Here's Statement on Federal Credit Measure WASHINGTON, D. C—Following is the text of the statement issued by Senators La...
Paid articleREPUBLICAN SCHEME TO DISFRANCHISE RELIEF CLIENTS BRINGS JERSEY PROTEST
Republican Scheme To Disfranchise Relief Clients Brings Jersey Protest Legislator Is Target of Attacks for Proposal TRENTON, N. J.—As resentment mounted against the proposal that the legislature...
Paid articleROLL CALL
ROLL CALL On MEN and Measures THE House of Representatives last week, without a record vote, passed the senate approved bill increasing the lending authority of the Export-Import bank to...
Paid articlePOLITICS
Politics Notes from Here and There About Solons and Citizens I By OBSERVER'JTHE "Two-One Plan" is the latest political panacea in the state 0[ Washington. A gentleman who thinks property should...
Paid articleOREGON EMPLOYER GROUP PLANS NATIONAL ORGANIZATION TO WAR AGAINST LABOR
Oregon Employer Group Plans National Organization To War Against Labor Seek to Enlist Small Business Man in Drive SALEM, Ore.—Labor in Oregon, already hampered by the state's drastic anti-picket...
Paid articleSIX MUNICIPAL UTILITIES REPORT $87,576 PROFITS
Six Municipal Utilities Report $87,576 Profits Groups Reveal They Had Paid $52,294 in Taxes Six municipal electric light and water utilities reported to the state public service commission last...
Paid article3 MUNICIPAL UTILITIES SHOW $31,690 PROFIT
3 Municipal Utilities Show $31,690 Profit Stoughton, Elroy a n d Slinger Reports Are Filed Here Three municipal electric and water utilities reported to the state public service commission last...
Paid articleOREGON BOARD VOTES TO ACQUIRE VILLAGE UTILITY
Oregon Board Votes To Acquire Village Utility Action For M un icipal Plant Subject to A pril Referendum OREGON, Wis.—The Oregon village board has voted to acquire the property of the Oregon...
Paid articleGROVES TERMS CO-OP 'TRAINING FOR DEMOCRACY'
Holmburg, Charles W.
Groves Terms Co-op 'Training for Democracy'! U. W. Economies Professor Addresses Milwaukee Convention By CHARLES W. HOLMBL'RG MILWAUKEE — The co - opera;ive movement in the United States offers a...
Paid articleREA ELECTRICITY IS BOON TO FARMERS, RY OFF FARM LIVING HELPS DRUDGE
REA Electricity Is Boon to Farmers, ry Off Farm LivingHelps Take Drudge RE A Report Tells of Benefits Given Agriculture WASHINGTON, I). C—On dark winter mornings the farmer went out to the barn...
Paid articleCO-OPS BRING ELECTRIC SERVICE TO 32,800 FARM FAMILIES IN WISCONSIN
Co-ops Bring Electric Service to 32,800 Farm Families in Wisconsin WD A Aids in Organizing, Finance and Con-struction Co-operative electric service has been made available to more than 32,-800...
Paid articleFARMERS' UNION, TEXAS TENANT FARMER'S IDEA, NOW GIANT ORGANIZATION
Uphoff, Walter
Farmers' Union, Texas Tenant Farmer's Idea, Now Giant Organization By WALTER UPHOFF A tenant cotton farmer and nine of his neighbors met in a country school-house near Point, Texas, Sept. 2, 1902...
Paid articleTHE PEOPLE'S FORUM
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM—A Full Page of Letters from Progressive Readers GIVE ME THE LIBERTY TO KNOW, TO UTTER, AND TO ARC HE FREELY ACCORDING TO CONSCIENCE, ABOVE ALL LIBERTIES.-MILTON. Poll Taxes i...
Paid articleA ROOM OF OUR OWN
Follette, Isabel Bacon La
A Room of Our Own Fitness of Candidates If Roosevelt Wins Importance of Platform By ISABEL BACON LA FOLLETTE AFRIEND writes will I please emphasize to our readers the importance of the party over...
Paid articleBARE ALLEGED FORD 'TERROR' AGAINST UNION
Bare Alleged Ford 'Terror' Against Union Witnesses Tell Shocking Stories of Violence by Co. Squads DALLAS, Tex.—Sensational disclosures of alleged terroristic tactics by the Ford Motor Co. in its...
Paid articleSTATE PRESS TRIBUTES TO SOL LEVITAN
State Press Tributes to Sol Levitan FROM THE MANITOWOC HERALD-TIMES: SOL LEVITAN won't keep his promised meeting with Gov. Hell next fall. Sol promised to meet Hell "in two years" when they met »t...
Paid articleCARLSON WARNS OF MENACE IN U. S. JOBLESS
Carlson Warns of Menace in IL S. Jobless Unemployment Problem Discussed by Former Mayor JAMESTOWN, N. Y.—Former Mayor Samuel A. Carlson expressed his conviction last week at an assembly of the...
Paid articleNEWS VIEWS AND REVIEWS
News Views and Reviews Editorial Opinions from the Press of the Nation . 1 Levitan, an Artist W In His Way [From the New York Times] SOLOMON LEVITAN, who died at Madison Tuesday, was long one of...
Paid articleWHY NOT A BIG FISH OCCASIONALLY?
Why Not A Big Fish Occasionally? rpHE PROGRESSIVE is glad to see -¦- that the state board of bar commis-sioners has finally decided to take some affirmative action on the many complaints that have...
Paid articleAS THE CROW FLIES
Meyer, Ernest L.
As the Crow Flies By ERNEST L. MEYER IN my home town of Madison, Wis., when men get old and retire from business or from political office, they walk around and around the Capitol square,...
Paid articleA LETTER TO THE CADOTT SENTINEL
Stafford, Harold E.
A Letter to The Cadott Sentinel — (By HAROLD E. STAFFORD, Chippewa Falls, Wis.](By HAROLD E. STAFFORD, Chippewa Falls, (Chippewa Falls, Wis., Feb. 26.]—ITo The Cadott Sentinel, Cadott, Wis....
Paid articleWISCONSIN IN THE CAPITAL
Mobley, Radford E.
Wisconsin ttt the Capital [By RADFORD E, MOBLEYJ VVrrASHlNGTON, D. C—Senator Bob La Fol-W Iette is strongly considering an amendment to the trade pacts giving the senate authority to pass on...
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