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Harlan J. Bushfield, 60, South Dakota, a conservative machine politician who once proposed a "National Debt Week" for citizens to reflect on New Deal spending, hoped in 1940 to run for Vice President behind Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft. As Governor since 1939, hulking Harlan Bushfield has been noted chiefly for his economies...
Best bet in the Republican Senate race is another big man, cold, close-mouthed Harlan J. Bushfield, 59, present Governor, who stands a craggy 6 ft. 2, weighs 195. Though mum about foreign affairs for the last year, Bushfield dislikes Willkie liberalism, in 1940 aspired to run for Vice President behind Ohio's Robert A. Taft. Dictator of the machine he built, Bushfield's main distinction is a record for economy in tax reductions. He might have had a clear field but for the determined person of his Secretary of State, Olive A. Ringsrud...
...eleven shoe and seems, they say, "even larger than she is." With a peaches-&-cream complexion, a talent for mordant remarks, and a zest for riding the biggest horses available, Olive takes both conservatism and a thirst for reform from her Norse Lutheran heritage. Olive's attack on Bushfield is double-barreled. She pounds away with stories of past investigations of State G.O.P. funds, hammers at a current trial of three of Bushfield's State officers for embezzlement. Then she attacks his economy record: "He asks for advancement after . . . an administration whose only achievement has been...
South Dakota. In 1932 Franklin Roosevelt beat Herbert Hoover in South Dakota by 84,000 votes, beat Landon in 1936 by 34,000 votes. In 1938 Republican Harlan J. Bushfield squeakily won the Governorship from Democrat Oscar Fosheim. Last week Governor Bushfield, up for renomination, pulled twice the Democratic total...
South Dakota's steel-grey new Governor Bushfield warned Franklin Roosevelt that the U. S. frontier is not in France, that the West hates...