Word: jodok
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been doing so well in spite of recovery; barrel-chested Utilitarian Wendell Lewis Willkie, foe of TVA; President Clarence Francis, able little-publicized business pundit, and Chairman Colby Mitchell Chester, of General Foods; heavy-jowled Samuel Clay Williams, chairman of Reynolds Tobacco; Wisconsin's politics-minded Walter Jodok Kohler, of Kohler...
...service of his predecessor, Republican Walter Jodok Kohler, which Phil La Follette enjoyed was the State Emergency Board, composed of the Governor and the finance committee chairmen of the two legislative houses. In the closing days of Mr. La Follette's term, the State Supreme Court padlocked, in the State treasury, some $4,000,000 which this board was about to dole out to Civil War veterans and the teachers' retirement fund. This would have left the State treasury virtually bare when the new Governor took office...
...When Walter Jodok Kohler was elected Governor of Wisconsin for the 1929-30 term one slogan popularized by his admirers was: "From a laborer's job at $1.25 a day to the Governor's chair." Walter Kohler went to work in the foundry of his father's Sheboygan, Wis. plumbing goods factory at 15. He became president of Kohler Co. in 1905 at 30, has been its active head since. Last week Mr. Kohler, 62, upped himself to the chairmanship, made Brother Herbert Vollrath Kohler his successor. Elected Kohler directors were two sons of Walter Kohler: Robert...
Born, To Walter Jodok Kohler Jr., son & namesake of Wisconsin's onetime (1929-30) Governor and plumbing fixture tycoon ("Kohler of Kohler") ; and Celeste McVoy Holden Kohler: the first daughter to join the Kohler family in 50 years; in Sheboygan, Wis. Name: Celeste Nicollette...
...party included Technical Director William Irving Westervelt of Sears, Roebuck; President Frederick Beck Patterson of National Cash Register; President Walter Jodok Kohler of Kohler; President Alvan Tracy Simonds of Simonds Saw & Steel; President James Henry Rand Jr. of Remington Rand. There were executives from International Harvester, Coca-Cola...