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...Association, whose members operate about 400 of the State's 6,400 stores. The tax was extreme, ranged from $50 to $5,000 a store, with the levy based on all stores owned by a chain, not just those in Utah. But the Legislature had passed it over farmer-labor protest, and the Governor signed it even after his own Attorney General had declared some parts unconstitutional. With these talking points and a sheaf of petition forms, notarized Association solicitors started a door-to-door trek April 1. Business houses, factories, even independent stores helped, and last week...
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Minnesota. In the Republican fold after twelve years as a Farmer-Labor member of the U. S. Senate, poker-playing old Henrik Shipstead had no trouble walking off with the Republican Senatorial nomination. For GOPoliticos, it was like the good old days before Floyd Olson. They land-slid tough, able young Governor Harold Stassen in on his way to a second term...
...news of the worst crash in the history of U. S. aviation ended 17 months of safe operation. It stunned Washington. It had political repercussions: because among the dead was Minnesota's 62-year-old Farmer-Labor Senator Ernest Lundeen, whose successor will be named by Republican Governor Stassen; because after the crash in 1935 which killed Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico, Senator Lundeen voted to establish the independent Civil Aeronautics Authority (for air safety, development and regulation), and CAA was recently transferred to the Commerce Department. The crash also was a direct blow to several Government bureaus...