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...Satisfy. President Roosevelt in his speech at Green Bay, Wis. put a smart finger into one of the most turbulent State brews. In 1932 Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") La Follette supported the Roosevelt ticket. This year the President would like to see his political friend re-elected were it not for the fact that a regular Democrat might repeat the party's triumph of two years ago. In 1932 Wisconsin elected its first Democratic Governor since 1890?Albert George Schmedeman, clothing merchant, onetime (1926-30) Mayor of Madison, onetime (1913-21) Minister to Norway...
...same time a Wisconsin Democrat named F. Ryan Duffy was elected to the Senate where he has been seen but not heard. This year Albert Schmedeman is again running for Governor as a Democrat, "Bob" La Follette is up for re-election as a Progressive, and Brother "Phil" La Follette is angling for the Progressive nomination as Governor. Should the President endorse Senator La Follette's candidacy too ardently, it would probably ruin any Democratic chance of permanently regaining a lost State. On the other hand, should Mr. Roosevelt come out too hot and heavy for Governor Schmedeman and other...
...Your two Senators, Bob La Follette and Ryan Duffy, both old friends of mine, and many others, have worked with me in maintaining excellent cooperation between the executive and legislative branches of the Government. I take this opportunity of expressing my gratitude to them. Not only in Washington but in the State there has been cooperation by public officials in the achievement of the purposes we seek. I thank Governor Schmedeman, another old friend of mine, for his patriotic cooperation with the national Administration...
Amiable as well as efficient, his trainer, Bob Smith, calls him "the finest, most obliging gentleman that I have ever known." On long trips this by no means handsome aristocrat travels in a car attached to crack trains like the Twentieth Century. He is accompanied by a stablemate, usually a horse named Anarchy whom he likes, by his Negro handler, Johnny Gaines, and his toy poodle. In Chicago, Cavalcade was annoyed by too many callers. Trainer Smith put him in another stall, substituted a horse named Sleuth which visitors, when told it was Cavalcade, freely photographed...
...about 150 journals, each of which is sent to every other member through a central mailing bureau. A member's packet of journals would include such items as The Pippin, The Odd One, The Penpoint, The Empire, The Sea Gull, Leisure Hours, Boys' Chum, Badger Scratches, The Bob White, Tiny Tim, The New Times ("TNT'), The Giddy Gazette. Publisher of The Red Rooster is Ralph W. Babcock Jr. of Great Neck, L. I., elected president of N. A. P. A. last week. Although most of the papers are printed, a few are mimeographed. One such...