Word: minnesota
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President Benjamin F. Fairless of U.S. Steel Corp. and Board Chairman Cass Canfield of Harper & Bros, withdrew as vice chairmen of the dinner committee. Minnesota's New Dealing Senator Hubert Humphrey canceled his engagement to speak. President Spyros Skouras of 20th Century-Fox withdrew his sponsorship. Like General Marshall before them, some of Dr. Shipler's guests were discovering to their surprise that The Churchman involved more complications than the pious good work that its name implies...
When slender, white-haired Benjamin E. Youngdahl (brother of Minnesota's Governor Luther Youngdahl) came to St. Louis in 1945 as dean of Washington University's School of Social Work, he swore that in five years he'd "win an end to the ban on Negroes ... or go elsewhere...
Your excellent article on Minnesota's Senator Humphrey [TIME, Jan. 17] leaves some hard questions unanswered. Assuming that he is "too cocky, too slick, too shallow, too ambitious, a brain-picker rather than a scholar, clever without being wise," is he not just another Senator Claghorn with a "new look"? Is modern statecraft so simple an art that it can be mastered by one who learns his economics from South Dakota dust storms, and campaigns by visiting all the county fairs and eating hot dogs until they "come out of his ears...
...people want constructive action coupled with campaign promises. In the personality and record of Hubert H. Humphrey the people of Minnesota saw the dynamo of action needed for the fulfilling of their dream-the human-welfare state . . . They wanted a clean-up on the housing mess, the health problem, the tax situation, the labor snarl and half a dozen other national stumbling blocks...
Mere Puppets. The rebels insisted on a showdown. They picked Minnesota's 236-lb. Roy Dunn, who calls himself "a country politician," to oppose Scott. For 4½ bitter hours, speaker after speaker rose to fling recriminations at Dewey and Scott. West Virginia's Walter Hallanan opened up for the prosecution: "An election was lost because of stupidity, arrogance and cockiness . . . We've been mere puppets...