Word: farmer-labor
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...print reports from the United Press on its front page every morning. The big issue in 1937-1938 and in the following two years was America's role in the world conflict that seemed more and more inevitable. A debate be between isolationist Republican Rep. Hamilton Fish '10 and Farmer-Labor Rep. John T. Bernard, who favored collective security, drew a large crowd. Malcolm R. Wilkey '40, just returned from a trip to the Far East, warned in a CRIMSON article that Japan's quarrel with China was far more serious than generally believed...
Minnesota: Lively, fresh Republican organization cut into Democratic farmer-labor majorities in the primaries, but unemployment in the northern, iron range, a strong Catholic vote in St. Paul, and deep-seated Democratic loyalties in Minneapolis give Kennedy a lead...
Died. Henrik Shipstead, 79, son of a Norwegian immigrant to Minnesota, who in 1922 became the first U.S. Senator elected on the Farmer-Labor ticket, served four terms-the last as a Republican-before his intransigent isolationist career was ended in the 1946 primary by Harold Stassen's hand-picked candidate, Republican Edward J. Thye; of congestive heart failure complicated by terminal pneumonia; in Alexandria, Minn...
...committee heard testimony linking 26 F.E.-U.E. officers with Communist Party activities. One of the 26: black-browed, Corsica-born John Toussaint Bernard, who was once (1937-38) a Farmer-Labor Congressman from Minnesota, and who once (1950) appeared in Chicago's Loop clad in a Santa Claus suit and handing out Stockholm (i.e., Communist) peace petitions. Subpoenaed by the committee, Bernard invoked the Fifth Amendment, refused to admit or deny Communist activities or sympathies. He left the stand after making a bellicose demand for the $12 owed to him in witness fees...
...campaign and yelled that the Republicans were trying to slice the farmer's income. Thus did Harry Truman accomplish the near-impossible, the blending of the labor vote with the farm vote. The triumphant Democrats thought giddily of the future: Why not make the farmer-labor marriage permanent...