Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this, the Senate listened in silence. Next day Minnesota's Republican Joseph H. Ball had a caustic reply: the Pepper speech was right down the Communist line...
Last week Harold Stassen put together these firm convictions and decided not to run for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota this year...
...lacked confidence in his ability to beat isolationist, four-term Senator Henrik Shipstead in the GOPrimaries next July. Stassenites were fully confident that they already had the man to beat Shipstead. He was tall, horny-handed Edward John Thye, who garnered the biggest vote and the biggest majority in Minnesota history when he was elected governor...
...successor when Stassen resigned as governor to enter the Navy early in 1943. Thus when Stassen decided that he could best further his chances outside the Senate, Ed Thye was ready with his candidacy. Stassenites had expected an obstacle: plump, vivacious Mrs. Myrtle Thye, who greatly enjoys being Minnesota's First Lady. There was gossip in Minneapolis that perhaps Harold Stassen himself had had a talk with her. There had been another point: there would have to be a strong candidate to succeed him. They settled on tall, teetotaling Luther Youngdahl, state Supreme Court justice...
Mostly they were a serious lot, impatient with spoon-fed schooling and such extracurricular attractions as hazing. Their grades averaged well above their fellow students. (At the University of Minnesota, only three of 6,000 ex-G.I.s were in scholastic trouble...