Word: ancher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terms in the state legislature, three terms as attorney general, if In Democratic-inclined (but pro-Ike) Minnesota, Governor Orville Freeman, 38, an ex-marine with a reputation for being a homey family man (toasted marshmallows in the fireplace) and the administrator of a trouble-free office, knocked off Ancher Nelsen, onetime Rural Electrification Administrator, ardent Ike-man and former lieutenant governor...
...from Washington on a five-day hedgehop that carried the Columbine into five states and logged for Ike another 5,850 campaign miles. In Minnesota, where 500,000 jammed his path during a 33-mile tour of Minneapolis and St. Paul, the President extended coattails to Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Ancher Nelsen. Droning westward to the coast, he boosted Washington's Art Langlie and Oregon's Doug McKay, both hand-picked to run for the Senate, both lagging before Ike appeared on the horizon. In California the Eisenhower grin gleamed on Senator Tom Kuchel, and in Denver, during...
...Republican Congress. He also decided to turn a simple "get-out-the-vote" TV-radio appearance this week into another appeal for a G.O.P. Congress, and he will make still another plea on election eve. Some of his new spirit was displayed in a letter to Rural Electrification Administrator Ancher Nelsen. With scarcely concealed anger, Ike took notice that some Democrats (and Wayne Morse) were charging that the Administration was hostile to REA and planned to curtail its work. Wrote Ike: "This is part of a general fear psychology now being adroitly generated in many fields by people who evidently...
...keep power generation balanced between public and private utilities, the next big addition to the combined system's generating capacity will be built by the private companies. Best of all, wholesale power costs to the cooperatives will drop from ii mills to 8? mills a kwh. Said Ancher Nelson: "The agreement might well become a pattern for other states with power supply and cost problems in rural areas...
...Together. The peacemaker in the feud was Ancher Nelson, 49, a plain-spoken Minnesota Republican who was a farmer until he was appointed by President Eisenhower last year to replace onetime Agricultural Secretary Claude Wickard as boss of the Rural Electrification Administration. Shortly after he went into office, heads of the East Kentucky cooperative sought him out to plead their case in the long fight. The REA had authorized $28 million in loans to build a power plant at Ford and 798 miles of transmission line. But after giving the co-ops $15 million, the Government agency had stopped handing...