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Minnesota's young Governor Stassen has a streak that his critics call stubbornness and that his friends call a farsighted awareness of the new needs of a new time. Last week the Governor demonstrated this streak. To the post of the late Senator Ernest Lundeen he appointed-over the protests of Republican politicians -tall, lean, black-haired young Joseph Ball, who has been a newspaperman for 13 of his 34 years...
Because Senator Lundeen was a Farmer-Laborite, the appointment increased the Republican minority in the Senate to 24. Because Senator Lundeen was violently isolationist and Joe Ball favors "all aid possible to Britain without crippling our own defenses," the appointment cut a bigger hole in the Senate's isolationist bloc. But bigger news was that Joseph Ball's background made him look like a new type for the Senate...
Interrupting, Minnesota's Senator Ernest Lundeen (see p. 17) declared: "I think the gentleman referred to ... should be deported from the United States." Said peppery old Senator Carter Glass of Virginia: ". . . If there is not a law to deport him, he should be deported anyway...
...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...
...Nazi-U. S. relations last winter were calm but Sen. Lundeen wanted to seize Bermuda when Britain wouldn't stop...