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Bouncing out of the wings and turning on his Missouri accent, he had gotten off a rousing, "give-'em-hell" speech, designed for the farmer-labor combination that had elected him last November. The audience at the Allegheny County Fair was tailor-made-farmers from the countryside, steelworkers from Pittsburgh's mills. "Farmers and industrial workers . . . depend on each other," he told them...
With such words ringing in their ears, the C.I.O. delegates made big political plans. After pausing long enough to throw a scare into the Reds in their midst (see below), they talked of farmer-labor unity, discussed Government housing programs, price control, civil rights, medical insurance and federal aid to education. Said C.I.O. President Philip Murray: "We will obtain enactment of many important pieces of humanitarian legislation...
During two terms as county attorney in the troubled days of the depression, he showed a particular genius for settling labor disturbances. He also turned a clear and critical eye on the left-wingers who composed Minnesota's uproarious Farmer-Labor Administration. He decided that a Stassen Administration could do better. He was the state's outstanding Republican at 29, and he was governor...
Married. Mrs. Ernest Lundeen, 48, comely widow of Minnesota's late isolationist Farmer-Labor Senator Lundeen; and Oregon's isolationist Republican Senator Rufus C. Holman, 67, defeated last May for renomination; in Minneapolis. Senator Holman courted Mrs. Lundeen between sessions of the Republican National Convention, where she appeared (on the fringes) with the stentorian, fascistic Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith...
With the passing of George Norris, Homer Bone has been the Senate's leading public power advocate. He has an almost pathological hatred for private utilities; in his home State he has fought them as a candidate on the Socialist, Farmer-Labor, Triple Alliance, Republican and Democratic tickets. Most of the time he won, and gradually he set up Washington's famed Public Utility Districts...