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Like the late Huey Long, Minnesota's late Farmer-Labor Boss Floyd Bjornsjerne Olson left some mutually unfriendly political heirs. The de facto inheritor of the Olson mantle is serious, bespectacled Governor Elmer Austin Benson, who is engaged in a struggle for renomination in the June 20 primary. Opposed to him is Farmer-Labor's more conservative faction, whose Candidate Hjalmar Petersen was Governor for a few months in 1936 following the death of Governor Olson and who once quit the party because he thought it was going Communist. Last week the fight shifted to a new front...
...Chester Davis' famed "purge" of radicals two years later. Victor Christgau was next given the $6,500 job of setting up WPA in his home State. Since 1935 he has administered $95,000,000 worth of Minnesota WPA projects in a manner not always acceptable to Elmer A. Benson. Their bitterest clash took place last winter, when Administrator Christgau refused to appropriate $700,000 for a weed eradication project sponsored by the Governor. Last fortnight, WPA's high command issued an order summarily removing Mr. Christgau, appointing Roy C. Jacobson, WPA field representative, as Minnesota's acting...
...Governor Benson soon crowed that this was a victory for progressives. But Mr. Christgau, who was in Redwood Falls to dedicate a new WPA-built community house at the Birch Coulee Dakota Indian agency and to receive a tribal distinction as Chief Standing Bear, last week began to broadcast a different account by telephone and telegraph. He announced that the real reason for the ouster was not his "meddling in politics," as Governor Benson and Senator Ernest Lundeen had charged, but his refusal to be "kicked upstairs" to a job in Washington, which Administrator Hopkins had offered him fortnight before...
Thayer fellowships to: Paul L. Richard 3G, Willard A. Smith 1G. Thayer scholarships to: Sidney W. Benson, Columbia University John C. Greene, University of South Dakota. William S. Johnson 1G. Thomas R. Steadman 1G. Gorham Thomas scholarship, Herbert W. Crispin. Townsend scholarships to: Laurence L. Barber Jr. 1G, Bernard S. Lynn, Stanford University, Donald T. MacRae, Dunlap Observatory. John Tyndall scholarship, Henry Hurwitz Jr. Cornell University...
What made Wisconsin particularly interested in this meeting was the identity of the Benson-La Follette host. For the farmhouse belonged to none other than Charles Allen Ward, millionaire Minneapolis printer, longtime friend and backer of Minnesota's late Farmer-Labor Boss Floyd B. Olson. This fact promptly set tongues wagging as to whether the National Progressives have not acquired that indispensable aid to a fledgling enterprise, theatrical or political-a well-heeled, generous angel...