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Original credit for thinking that the U.S. public would like to hear the famed Japcaster goes to KYA's 6-ft., 31-year-old, South Dakota-born president, Don Fedderson. He got the idea one morning at 4 o'clock. It stood the test of daylight. It pleased both the FCC and the Office of Censorship. It delighted Roos Bros, who, in a trial poll on the propriety of the program, got 97% approval. The poll's heavy mailbag indicated that the program would collect a sizable audience...
Thus strengthened, the conservatives moved up for the final battle. On their side were all the Republicans (save North Dakota's lone corporal, Bill Langer) and a solid regiment of Southern Democrats...
...night before election day it rained 3.07 inches in Crosby, North Dakota. Next day rain still fell. In many a western county, where North Dakota farmers were isolated by impassable mud, no vote was cast. This was the best possible weather for Gerald P. Nye, the slickest isolationist in the U.S. Senate...
...Republican primary, Gerald Nye put up the toughest fight of his 18-year career to hold his Senate seat (TIME, June 19). Among city voters, his strongest competition was able Lynn U. Stambaugh, international-minded Fargo lawyer and onetime National Commander of the American Legion. But most of North Dakota's decisive rural vote was slated to go to Congressman Usher L. Burdick, 65, an isolationist who had learned better. The downpour which kept farmers from the polls was rain from heaven to Gerald Nye, who gathered in 38,082 votes. Stambaugh, contrary to most North Dakota dopesters, made...
Many North Dakota Republicans see a dismal choice of evils between Gerald Nye's rabid, unrepentant isolationism and the Langer machine's shady political reputation. With evangelical zeal, the state's businessmen, mostly political amateurs, are backing a third candidate: able Lynn U. Stambaugh, 53, onetime (1941-42) National Commander of the American Legion. Trim, hearty Legionnaire Stambaugh, a successful Fargo lawyer and long-time advocate of U.S. participation in world affairs, has invested in 53 red-white-& -blue billboards for a high-pressure campaign. But the grain growers and stockmen who cast most of North Dakota...