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Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson, kingpin of Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Party, months ago laid his plans to get into the U. S. Senate when Minnesota's Republican Thomas D. Schall should come up for re-election next autumn. Suddenly, last fortnight, a Senate seat was dropped into Governor Olson's lap when Senator Schall died after an automobile accident (TIME, Dec. 30). Farmer-Laborite Olson had only to resign as Governor and let his Lieutenant Governor appoint him to the Senate. Being a shrewd politician he knew that such a maneuver would look...
...prophesies the rise of a third major party between 1936 and 1940 which will be chiefly Farmer-Labor in composition with some white collar element. The Socialists will unite with them, he says if they are permitted educational freedom to spread their doctrine. A likely basis for the new party's platform will be "production for use, not profit...
Last week in Omaha was made the first formal nomination for President of the U. S. in the campaign of 1936. Maker of the nomination was one Roy Harrop's Farmer-Labor Party.* Favorite candidate of most delegates was Huey Long but he lost the nomination by his absence from the convention. Therefore the party renominated its 1932 nominee, Jacob Sechler Coxey, who three years ago took 7,309 votes from Roosevelt, Hoover and Thomas, who four years ago was elected Mayor of Massillon, Ohio (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931), who 41 years ago led his "Army" of 356 unemployed...
...confused with Minnesota's potent Farmer-Labor Party...
Undaunted was the blond, chunky Governor, who wants to socialize every bank, factory and utility in his flat State. Within a few weeks his legal henchmen turned up in the little town of Moorhead, in the northwest corner of Minnesota where Farmer-Labor strength is great. Moorhead is the Clay County seat, and the Olson prosecutors went out to see Farmer Bosshard, who was one of the 25 Banco stock-holders in the vicinity. On the basis of his complaint, without waiting for the formality of an indictment, a district judge ordered Banco's President J. Cameron Thomson...