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...farmer boy who made his way through the University of North Dakota and University of Chicago (LL.B., J.D.) by working as a cook and taxi driver, Leif Erickson won "his first political office (county attorney) in 1936. Until he was elected to the state supreme court in 1938, most Montanans had never heard of him; when he lost out to Wheeler-backed Republican Sam Ford in the 1944 campaign for governor, most voters figured he was through politically...
Jubilantly, progressive Republicans prepared to bury Midwestern isolationism. But most political prophets were cautious about building local results into a national, or even a sectional pattern. Last month, North Dakota voters had returned diehard isolationist Bill Langer to the Senate. And in Minnesota isolationist Congressmen had been renominated, in contests where Stassenism was not a factor. The defeat of Henrik Shipstead caused scarcely a ripple in congressional cloakrooms, changed no votes in the battle in the House over the British Loan (see The Congress...
Even if both title and cast are downright thrilling, A.R.I, may discover that customers look bored at mention of the proposed story about an unhappy North Dakota farm wife. The manufacturer who persists in going through with such a dubious theme is warned to soft-pedal it in advertising. (Paramount's Double Indemnity suffered when advance publicity tipped off audiences that Fred MacMurray was cast as a heel...
...intransigent isolationism was no handicap in the German and Scandinavian areas of Minnesota, where isolationism is still a potent political force. Instead of trying to whitewash his record on foreign affairs, he made no bones of the fact that he and North Dakota's Bill Langer had cast the only votes in the Senate against U.N. Rural voters nodded approval...
...Senator Chapman Revercomb rose up on the floor of the Senate to thunder his objections: "I don't want to draft troops to take part in a civil war in China." The little knot of bitter-enders took up the cry. But the Senate, urged on by South Dakota's Republican Senator Chan Gurney, resolutely beat back a last desperate attempt to wreck the draft law, approved (6940-8) a one year's extension to replace the stop-gap bill which expires July...