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Minnesota Republicans firmly beat down the bustling attempt by tall, mellow Senator Henrik Shipstead, who moved into their house two years ago from the old Farmer-Labor Party, to set himself up as head man in place of able young Governor Harold E. Stassen. Last week's primary was a whopping defeat for Senator Shipstead's men: renominated by big margins were both Governor Stassen and his close friend, Joseph Hurst Ball, the ex-newspaperman whom Stassen appointed to the Senate in 1940. With the Farmer-Labor Party on the skids and the Democrats scarcely heard from, Stassen...
Senator Henrik Shipstead is a tall and mellow fellow, has spent 19 years in the Senate by mastering the ancient political trick of keeping both ears on the ground at once. In 1940 his overdeveloped ears gave him a warning and forthwith Henrik Shipstead moved out of the old Farmer-Labor Party, and became a Republican...
...unknown was the vote of the old Farmer-Labor Party. Up for the Senate nomination was a woman who personified the party's problem: charming Norma Ward Lundeen, the 46-year-old widow of British-hating, German-loving Senator Ernest Lundeen, who was killed in a 1940 airplane crash. Mrs. Lundeen, firm of jaw and of conviction, is campaigning to vindicate her husband's bitter-end isolationism, "to travel under his banner." People who had already looked under Lundeen's banner had found there many smelly characters like George Sylvester Viereck, old Lundeen friend now serving...
...even the most cynical politician suspected that Governor Stassen was trying to improve his chances for the 1942 gubernatorial election; he was a cold cinch for re-election anyway. But the statement spurred all three of Minnesota's parties (Republican, Democrat, Farmer-Labor) into sudden frenzy. If Stassen is re-elected and then goes off to war the following spring, the man elected Lieutenant Governor next November will be Minnesota's Governor within six months. And, though even cynics admitted that Governor Stassen's patriotism was perfectly virtuous, they also pointed out that that virtue might well...
After one day and one hour's debate, the House passed the bill: 259-18-138. For: 219 Democrats, 39 Republicans, one American Labor. Against: 21 Democrats, 113 Republicans, three Progressives, one Farmer-Labor...