Word: minne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Saint Paul, Minn...
...single man (thus disposing of occasional commercial rumors of a "Mrs. Claus"), 51 years old (presumably an arbitrary figure), and...in order to bring him up to the average man, intellectually, he must be measured by a yardstick of considerable elasticity." Claus v. Hall Mercantile Co., 157 Minn. 290, 196 N.W. 261. We can sympathize with the hurt Claus, clutching frantically at his flaming whiskers, but the judicial finding of stupidity must stand, as it has never been overruled in the Minnesota courts...
Granite Falls, Minn...
Career: Just out of law school, he ran for Dakota (Minn.) county attorney in 1929, was laid low by tuberculosis, campaigned from a sanatorium, won the election. He was fully recovered by the time he took office in 1930, served two four-year terms. In 1938, at 31, he was elected governor of Minnesota, was re-elected twice. In four years he turned a $39 million deficit into a $3,000,000 surplus, cut yearly expenses from $105 million to $92 million, slashed the payroll from 17,000 to 10,000, cut the property tax almost 50%, created...
Mama's Boy. In Fairmont, Minn., while celebrating Mrs. Carl Kraft's 100th birthday, her 60-year-old son told friends : "When she gets my breakfast for me that's fine, and as long as she insists on doing her own housecleaning I'll let her, but when she tries to iron for more than an hour and a half, I put my foot down...