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Meantime Governor Phil, the recognized organizing brain of the National Progressives, held an equally significant meeting with Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Governor Elmer A. Benson. Occasion was a barbecue supper for the two third-party chieftains and some 40 of their friends and associates at a pleasant farmhouse near Hudson, Wis. The meeting on the Potomac looked like simple Roosevelt curiosity. The barbecue on the Hudson farm looked like the beginning of a national alliance, or at least of local modus vivendi, between two once faithful Roosevelt allies...
What made Wisconsin particularly interested in this meeting was the identity of the Benson-La Follette host. For the farmhouse belonged to none other than Charles Allen Ward, millionaire Minneapolis printer, longtime friend and backer of Minnesota's late Farmer-Labor Boss Floyd B. Olson. This fact promptly set tongues wagging as to whether the National Progressives have not acquired that indispensable aid to a fledgling enterprise, theatrical or political-a well-heeled, generous angel...
...political party which holds the balance of power in New York City and which Mayor LaGuardia recently joined is the (1 Socialist, 2 Republican, 3 American Labor, 4 Progressive Republican, 5 Farmer-Labor...
...hysteria had subsided, went to University of Oklahoma as professor of finance. But the incident rankled in the mind of Pierce Butler's young law clerk, Elmer Benson, as he marched up the political ladder. It still rankled when, 20 years later, the law clerk had become the Farmer-Labor Governor of Minnesota. Last week came the day he had been waiting...
...privilege of having union cards in a nation-wide society, and the responsibility of participating in its wild-eyed schemes, all of which originate far from the scene of action in Cambridge. Last year, for instance, the National Union almost succeeded in allying itself with the politically bankrupt farmer-labor party in the Middle West, and this shot-gun wedding which the national leaders tried to put over on the rest of the member organizations was only averted by the stern and level-headed refusal of the Harvard group to violate its platform pledge given its members which promises...