Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British policy in Palestine. New York City's Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, a Zionist leader, set the minds of some at ease with a courageous statement supporting the loan on its own merits. Republicans from isolationist midwestern districts, however, felt no pro-loan pressure from Stassenite successes in Minnesota's primary (see Political Notes...
...last days before Minnesota's Republican primary, Harold Stassen uncorked his Sunday punch. Across the state streamed a 300-car caravan of bustling, energetic, amateur electioneers. At small towns in 60 of Minnesota's 87 counties they stopped, posted placards, distributed campaign throwaways, talked politics with main street loungers...
...popular Stassenman Ed Thye breezed in ahead of longtime (24 years) isolationist Senator Henrik Shipstead with a 3-to-2 lead. With a near-record Republican turnout, winner Thye looked like a sure bet for the Senate in the fall. His running-mate, Luther Youngdahl, was nominated for the Minnesota governor's chair by an even larger majority...
...presidential aspirant Stassen, the nugget of victory had many facets. He had come back from defeat in the Nebraska primary (TIME, June 24). He had increased his prestige enormously within the Republican party. He had proved that the voters of traditionally isolationist Minnesota were willing to listen to his pro-U.N., pro-British Loan brand of internationalism. Said he: "A decisive victory for a progressive Republican policy...
People's Plafform (Sun. 1 p.m., CBS). "Can Capitalism or Socialism promote a better world society?" Britain's Professor Harold Laski (from London) v. Minnesota's Senator Joseph Ball...