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There are two non-Democratic Governors: Philip La Follette of Wisconsin and Hjalmar Petersen, who succeeded the late Floyd Olson, of Minnesota. Both La Follette and the heirs of Olson are allies of the New Deal.* In each of the other 37 States a Democrat sits in the Governor's chair. By no means, however, does the presence of a Democrat in a State capitol mean that the State will fall without fuss into the New Deal's lap Nov. 3. In half a dozen politically confused States like Ohio, Colorado, Nebraska, Democratic Governors are no assets...
According to Minnesota's Governor Petersen, the President once addressed his opponent by saying, "Now, Alf Landon. if you take my place. . . ." It was also reported that the President had given' up trying to eat his hard-frozen dessert of ice cream ball & shredded cocoanut after it had repeatedly skidded out from under his spoon...
Children conceived during a blustery February and gestated during a stormy spring are more apt to have cleft palates and harelips than children created while weather is more temperate. This is a fact which Professor William Ferdinand Petersen of the University of Illinois discovered while compiling a treatise on The Patient & the Weather...
Following up his theory that stormy weather causes the conception of malformed babies such as hermaphrodites in Montana, hairlips in Maine (TIME, July 23), Dr. William Ferdinand Petersen of the University of Illinois analyzed the seasonal trend on Chicago conceptions and last week, in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, was able to state that almost every Chicago baby conceived in calm July, August and September was born perfect. But babies conceived in stormy March and April showed an abnormal percentage of abnormalities-imperfect spines, cleft palates, club feet...
Professor Petersen presented reasons for those peculiarities of distributions. Said he: "Assuming that malformations are possibly due both to a genetic and to an environmental factor, I shall disregard the genetic phase. . .In the Northeast we find a high cleft-palate rate. We deal with a population that has been domiciled under the present climatic conditions for perhaps some 200 years or more. . . . Cleft palate and harelip are not fatal and do not prevent reproduction. Familiar strains present in the population would continue and the climatic instability would, if anything, enhance the frequency of such defects...