Word: lundeen
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Minnesota Senator. It was about this time that he met a county attorney named Harold Stassen. Ball liked Stassen's views. They were two intellectual explorers in Midwest Minnesota and Joe helped elect Harold governor. So in 1940, when Minnesota's U.S. Senator Ernest Lundeen was killed in an airplane crash, the nation's youngest governor (Stassen was then 33) filled the vacancy with Joe Ball, who at 34 became the nation's youngest Senator...
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...
...Congressman will address a closed Faculty lunch before the meeting. Ball, a Republican, first appointed in 1940 by Governor Stassen to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Lundeen, was elected for a full term last year...
...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...
...last week clever George Viereck found himself on trial in Washington for not telling his children's Government all about his work for his Fatherland. Witnesses testified that bespectacled, thick-lipped George Viereck had helped write speeches for Congressmen (including Minnesota's late Senator Ernest Lundeen), had mailed them throughout the nation in franked envelopes furnished by Congress man Ham Fish's secretary, George Hill (TIME...