Word: andersen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minneapolis Tribune's Minnesota poll showed Incumbent Republican Governor Elmer L. Andersen with a slim edge in his bid for a second term over Democratic-Farmer-Labor Lieutenant Governor Karl Rolvaag. After lagging well behind Rolvaag in August, Andersen now had support from 50% of the state's "most likely voters," to Rolvaag...
...Governor of Minnesota and chairman of the state's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Freeman tried for years to unseat stocky, moonfaced H. Carl Andersen as U.S. Representative from the rural Seventh Congressional District. But Andersen, a conservative on nearly all issues but high farm supports, seemed unbeatable; he was elected twelve times. Then, last January, along came Billie...
Estes had been told that Andersen, as ranking G.O.P. member of the Agriculture appropriations subcommittee, would make a "good Republican contact." So Estes paid a visit to Andersen's office, wound up buying $4,000 worth of stock in an Andersen family coal mine. Andersen did not bother to deliver certificates until the Estes scandal broke...
...When Andersen's name popped up in the Estes investigation, many of his old colleagues cut him cold, bringing forth a piteous Andersen speech on the House floor: "Some of you gentlemen who have been shying off, come and say hello to H. Carl Andersen, come shake my hand." From home came rumbles of Republican discontent, and Andersen announced that he would run for re-election as an independent. Then, fearing the loss of his party seniority in the House, he changed his mind, entered the Republican primary. But the Minnesota G.O.P. had already endorsed a freshman state legislator...
...expensive capacity and its actual production. Steel has spent prodigious amounts of money−an average of $1 billion a year since World War II−for expansion and development. But some economists fault the industry's managers for concentrating so heavily on expansion. Says U.C.L.A. Economist Theodore Andersen: "They have put too much of their investment into increased capacity, instead of modernizing and increasing the efficiency of existing facilities." Some steelmen would now surely agree...