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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rousing majority of 176,000-and some 40,000 more votes than Republican Incumbent Edward Thye rang up in his race for the Republican nomination against two little-known competitors. Consensus for November: Thye will have to hustle to keep his seat. Neither the wraithlike opposition of Marvin A. Evenson, a Moorhead businessman, nor the wrath of her husband Andy, who cried bitterly and vainly for Representative Coya Knutson to come home last May (TIME, May 19), deterred Minnesota's Ninth Congressional District (15 northwest counties) from handing hard-talking Coya another chance-her third -to keep her Democratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIMARIES: Scattered Straws | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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