Business: Personnel: Apr. 26, 1937
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¶ 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 E., 29, and Carl J., 32. Already on the board were two others: John M., 35, and Walter J., 33.
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