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...Truman Administration went gunning last week for game that is all but extinct: a brace of rugged individualists. Specimen No. 1 was 69-year-old Leon Clausen, a big-boned man with a face that betrays his Danish descent. Clausen beat his way from a Wisconsin farm to the presidency of J. I. Case Co., manufacturer of farm implements. His habitat is Racine, Wis., where he is distinguished by stubborn Republicanism, civic philanthropies and firm opinions, openly expressed. It was not unusual to see him last week in a curbstone argument over the British loan (which he deplores) with Case...
...Brush. Terrain over which the Truman Administration hunted them was thick with underbrush. Clausen's Case Co. has had plenty of labor strife. The nub of the present trouble is a letter written by union leaders in 1937 which recognized: 1) the right of any employe to join a union of his choosing, 2) the right of non-union workers to deal individually with the company. Triumphantly Clausen declared that the letter guaranteed that Case could remain an open shop. Union leaders declared the letter obsolete, and negotiations promptly broke down...
...London. The Germans presumably thought the elections would be good propaganda for their New Order, which is supposed to give non-Germans a better break than they have had up to now in Europe. Perhaps, too, they even hoped to boost the prestige of Danish Nazi leader Fritz Clausen. On the second count, at least, they were dismally wrong...
...Dansk National-Socialistisk-Arbejderpartei (Danish Nazi party) under ridiculous Doctor Fritz Clausen has only 30,000 members, but there are nine other Danish-Nazi splinter groups. The Germans encourage this splintering to forward the disintegration of the country's political system. They hope to absorb Denmark whole...
...fantastic mixup between Progressives and Democrats, piled up on Wisconsin's Senator Robert Marion La Follette Jr. Not until the last precincts had reported could he be sure of beating sober, conservative Republican Frederick H. Clausen...