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...quite unjust to infer that Mr. Benson was elected on any other consideration than his own merits, combined with the merits of the progressive Farmer-Labor movement in which he has become a leader in his own right. His total vote in the election, as tabulated thus far, exceeds the combined votes of Farmer-Labor and Democratic nominees to offices which were not affected by the withdrawal of Democratic candidates for governor and U. S. senator...
...some 275,000 New Yorkers voted for Roosevelt and Lehman. Red Browder had proclaimed from the start that his Party's ambition was to lose its identity in a national Farmer-Labor Party in 1940. Last week in Chicago the Socialist Party's national executive secretary and 1936 campaign manager, Clarence Senior, summoned the pro-Roosevelt Labor's Non-Partisan League to begin building a Farmer-Labor Party at once...
...hating Publisher McCormick went down unyielding, unrelenting. Said the Tribune's lead election story: "More Socialists and Communists voted for Mr. Roosevelt than for their own candidates. . . .Thus was established the 'popular front' against capitalism planned by the Communists and other radicals to serve until the Farmer-Labor Party absorbs the Democratic Party and becomes the major opposition to the Republican Party in 1940, according to the plan promulgated from Moscow...
Minnesota. When Minnesota's blind, blatant Senator Thomas D. Schall died last December, Farmer-Labor Governor Floyd B. Olson appointed his quiet, abstemious, hard-working banking commissioner, Elmer A. Benson, to serve the unexpired term, be thus groomed to succeed as Governor. When Governor Olson died last summer, the blow to President Roosevelt's chances of carrying Minnesota caused him to persuade the State's Democratic nominees for Senator and Governor to withdraw in favor of the Farmer-Labor candidates. Old-line Democrats grumbled. Republicans shouted that the President had "sold his Party down the river...
Died. Magnus Johnson, onetime (1923-25) Farmer-Labor Senator from Minnesota; of pneumonia; at Litchfield. A homespun Swedish immigrant, he was proud of his Washington nickname of "yenerally speaking Yonson." Lured into a cow-milking contest once with the late Secretary of Agriculture Henry Cantwell Wallace, he lost by half-a-pint, protested his cow had been milked previously...