Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Prosser tried his $5 bill trick [TIME, April 12] on us at the University of Minnesota Law School last October, but we had the $5 back before the end of the hour. Justice is swift on the frontier...
...glance at Ohio. He was certain that his home state was a strong keep which could not be breached, that its 53 convention delegates were loyal to their liege lord. But last week Bob Taft found himself with his back to his own portcullis, fighting for his political life. Minnesota's Harold Stassen had somehow managed to get across the moat and was threatening to kidnap the faithful henchmen...
Stassen, the first candidate nominated, was placed on the ballot by Daniel M. Pierce '49, an Illinois resident, who was head of the Minnesota delegation. A loud and large parade followed Pierce's speech...
...Bernhard Levander, chairman of the Minnesota Republican Central Committee, another longtime Stassen man. Young (32) and razor-sharp, he is contact man and director at the ward and precinct level...
...this takes money, and the Stassen organization has it. Originally, all campaign expenses came from the Minnesota Fund-a war chest set up by a group of wealthy Minnesotans. Chief of the backers and money-raisers was Harry Bullis, wealthy board chairman of General Mills. Others: James Ford Bell, recently retired board chairman of General Mills; John Cowles, board chairman of Cowles Magazines (Look) and president of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune; John S. Pillsbury, board chairman of Pillsbury Mills; and Jay Hormel, board chairman of George A. Hormel & Co. But in the last 18 months, over 13,000 people...