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...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...
With Senator La Follette and Governor Schmedeman sitting on the platform be hind him at Green Bay, the President with the grace of a tight-rope walker ringingly declared...
...president of the Bank of Wisconsin. After his bank was absorbed by the Wisconsin Bankshares Corp., he retired to public life. For his good works in the Catholic Church he was knighted and awarded the Cross of St. Gregory by Pope Pius XI. He was confidential adviser to Governor Schmedeman when the Governor was Madison's mayor, followed him into the capitol last year without salary, is now chairman of the State Executive Council, a mixed advisory body of legislators and citizens. A 200-lb. bachelor with curly white hair and a reputation for high power at the council...
...Governors had no better plan. They lopped off Reno's last three proposals, got him to declare a truce in the farm strike. Then Governors Olson and Schmedeman entrained for Washington. Their colleagues later flew in the same direction...