Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left behind by Harold Stassen who were supposed to keep his political fires burning, lost control last week of Stassen's home state of Minnesota. A dirt-farming back-country legislator named Roy Dunn took over as the state's Republican boss...
This was the big news out of Minnesota's state G.O.P. convention, although the headlines went to the election of delegates pledged to Stassen for President. The delegates are pledged to Stassen all right-just as long as he has any chance. But instead of being bitter-end Stassen supporters, the delegates are now committed to Stassen only until Boss Roy Dunn sees a winner elsewhere...
...Stassen's top Minnesota lieutenants were pouring into neighboring Wisconsin, which will choose its Presidential favorites April 4. Stassen's name so far is entered only in Nebraska, where it will have tough going; in Minnesota, where it will get a solid favorite-son delegation; and in Wisconsin.) Able young Senator Joe Ball led the Stassen invasion of Wisconsin. Joe Ball made a smashing impression in Madison, with a state hookup. But politicos wondered: how much personal liking for Joe Ball would be translated into votes for his candidate, 7,500 miles away at sea? Minnesota...
Replacing Green as Editor for the Service Schools will be Roger H. Wilson '47 of White Plains, New York and Adams House. Walter A. Bates '46 of Wadsworth, Ohio and the Naval R.O.T.C. has been re-elected Advertising Manager, while Russell B. Headley '46 of St. Paul, Minnesota and the V-12 Unit will continue as Photographic Chairman, and Robert B. Lloyd '47 of Greensboro, North Carolina and Adams House was appointed Secretary...
...front: the 3rd, a Regular Army outfit heavily sprinkled with West Coast soldiers, which spearheaded the first Anzio beach attack; the 36th, a National Guard outfit from Texas, which forced the bloody crossing of the Rapido; the bloody crossing of the Rapido; the 34th, Iowa and Minnesota National Guard, which battled its way to a footbold in Cassino...