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...will inherit the governor's chair is C. Elmer Anderson, 39, the lieutenant governor, a moonfaced, mediocre politician from Brainerd (pop. 12,558). The Stassen forces thought so little of Elmer that back in 1942, when Governor Stassen was about to go in the Navy, they put up Ed Thye against Anderson, so that Thye would be governor when Stassen left. Now Thye is a U.S. Senator and up for re-election next year. He and Anderson would be embarrassing teammates on a ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Call Me Judge | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...smooth combination of comedy and pathos, romance and excitement, plus some pleasant Crosby crooning (notably, Let's Bake a Sunshine Cake). Like all Capra pictures, it is also calculated to delight the largest possible audience by taking potshots at the greedy and the pompous, while letting the meek inherit the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 1, 1950 | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

September. In Manistee, Mich., 83-year-old John Schultz admitted burning down his house and four other buildings on his farm, explained that it was the only way to stop his relatives from wrangling over who would inherit his property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 2, 1950 | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...book is best in those parts where it describes the ecological earthquakes in man's wake: the successive but ultimately unsuccessful attempts of the ants, the rats, and the cattle to inherit man's estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doomster | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Codicil. In Manistee, Mich., 83-year-old John Schultz admitted burning down his house and four other buildings on his farm, explained that it was the only way to stop his relatives from wrangling over who would inherit his property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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