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...took his measure was smart, strapping (6 ft. 3 in.; 210 lbs.) Leif Erickson. A friendly, balding lawyer with a big, booming voice, he got his start long after Burt Wheeler had become a veteran of the Senate...
...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...
...Leif Erickson's selection for the President's railroad fact-finding board gave him national prominence. Last week the only thing that seemed able to stop him from taking over Senator Wheeler's seat in the Soth Congress was the possibility of a coalition of Wheeler Democrats and Republicans in the fall...
...winners of the fellowships are Bernard R. Bowren, Jr. 6G, of Berkeley, Calif., in American Civilization, Hugh H. Chapman, Jr. 4G, of Evansville, Ind., Romance Languages (for the summer of 1946), H. Theodore Dohrman G.Dv., of Compton, Calif., Divinity, and George E. Erickson 5G, of Palmer, Mass., Biology (for the summer...
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