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...other four: Indiana's Raymond Willis, Idaho's Charles Gossett, Maryland's George Radcliffe, Minnesota's Henrik Shipstead...
...last week Harold Stassen knew that his "Paul Revere's Ride," a tested tactic from his 1938 campaign for governor, had routed an already beaten opponent. Instead of the expected close finish, 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...
...prophets were cautious about building local results into a national, or even a sectional pattern. Last month, North Dakota voters had returned diehard isolationist Bill Langer to the Senate. And in Minnesota isolationist Congressmen had been renominated, in contests where Stassenism was not a factor. The defeat of Henrik Shipstead caused scarcely a ripple in congressional cloakrooms, changed no votes in the battle in the House over the British Loan (see The Congress...
...careful years in Washington, silver-shocked Senator Shipstead has learned to avoid controversial domestic subjects, has never signed his name to any important piece of legislation. But he has remembered to look out for his constituents. He blatantly promised "to lead the farmers up to the Treasury-trough for a hearty feed." Originally a Republican, he paid no attention to party lines. Minnesota had first sent him to the Senate as a Farmer-Laborite, returned him twice on that ticket, finally as a Republican again...
...saved his biggest rocks for Harold Stassen. Trumpeting "dictatorship," Shipstead hinted at "small, select, secret meetings" with the "bosses in the East." Cried he: "They have prostituted the primary . . . [Stassen] must have eaten pretty red meat at his luncheons and dinners on his trips to New York...