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Hence, this week the U. S. Senate sees Elmer Austin Benson take a place beside Minnesota's Hendrik Shipstead as No. 2 Farmer-Laborite Senator. Benson's age: 40. His manner: mild, cautious. His religion: Lutheran. His disposition: silent Norwegian determination. His habits : abstemious. His appearance: well-groomed. His instinct: righteous conservatism in everything except politics. Until two years ago he was a bank cashier in his native Appleton. Minn., a man who displayed his deep-seated ambition by being hardworking, meticulous, self-denying and an ardent Farmer-Laborite. Then Governor Olson made him State Securities Commissioner, later...
...determined that the orchestra shall sound professional. Conductor Sundstrom has worked at music since she was a child on a farm in Lindsborg, Kans. At 7 she played the violin, at 13 she organized a trio, played in hotels and theatres. She was organist and choir director at Grace Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, when she met a young Swedish dentist as blonde as herself, became Mrs. Victor Nylander...
...Worse, "a Manual of Christian Matrimony,''* by Rev. Dr. Walter Arthur Maier, famed Lutheran, editor of The Walther League Messenger, professor at Concordia Seminary. Chubby, dimple-chinned Dr. Maier, 42, is a harddriving, popular teacher, a hard-working editor who dictates daily to three secretaries. Frequently on the platform or before the microphone, he is proud to be called Bryanesque, speaks with a slight German accent, likes to tell how, as an undergraduate at Harvard, he won a $100 public speaking prize which he had to go to court to collect, because his scholarship stipulated...
...rehabilitation fund raised after earthquakes lately damaged Helena, Mont., $3,100 was contributed by distillers -Seagrams, National Distillers, Glenmore Distillers, Beng & Sons, George L. Tracy, Bertoglio & McTaggart. Of the $3,100, $150 was offered to, and gratefully accepted by, a Lutheran Church; $500 by St. Joseph's Orphanage House of the Good Shepherd. Last week St. Paul's Methodist Deaconess Home declined $500, announcing that "considering the source, it is impossible to accept...
...Reader Trexler, president of the New York Lutheran Ministers' Association, thanks for good words...