Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mothers of prodigies usually experience nothing more painful than lofty anticipation when the public ignores their secret. Last week, by virtue of the same sort of faith in a sure thing, thousands of U.S. citizens reacted like Geiger counters to a completely unradioactive fragment of political news:' Minnesota's Republican ex-Governor Harold Stassen had started on a vacation...
What Comes Naturally. Stassen fans, as well as the original Stassen faithful-mostly men & women from Minneapolis, St. Paul and the Minnesota farm lands-applauded this complete absence of foofooraw. They liked to think of their man resting up after the heat wave. It was, after all, the last vacation Harold Stassen was likely to have for a long time. In the months which followed, they were sure he would become leader of what he called a "new, liberal, humanitarian" Republican Party and be elected President of the United States...
During two terms as county attorney in the troubled days of the depression, he showed a particular genius for settling labor disturbances. He also turned a clear and critical eye on the left-wingers who composed Minnesota's uproarious Farmer-Labor Administration. He decided that a Stassen Administration could do better. He was the state's outstanding Republican at 29, and he was governor...
...Years. He was re-elected twice-the last time after explaining that he proposed to go on active duty in the Navy almost immediately. (He has run in five elections in his life, won them all.) To the lieutenant governorship, Minnesota gladly voted his choice for a successor, Edward Thye, now U.S. Senator from...
...last week's A.M.A. Journal, a surgeon made a telling plea for a nationwide system of cancer detection clinics. Wrote the University of Minnesota's Owen H. Wangensteen: stomach cancer is so insidious and gives so little warning that every man over 50 and every woman over 40 should report to a clinic regularly for an X-ray checkup. To point up his argument, Dr. Wangensteen examined the case histories of five world-famed authorities (including Will Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic, and R. D. Carman, who developed an improved method for X-ray diagnosis...