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While the right claims victory on one hand, the Willkie wing, supported by recent Gallup polls, purports to hold the actual leadership of the party. In one corner the Spangler-Taft-Bricker coalition prepares to wrest the coming nomination, while the Willkie-Stassen group marshals its strength for the 1944 test. As a result, the present Congress lacks the critical eye of a unified minority, and the Old Guard continues to approach their old level of influence...
Ohio's voters also paid a tribute-the kind a politician understands best-to the efficient, blameless administration of Governor Bricker. Unlike Minnesota's Harold Stassen, John Bricker has taken no decisive stand on world affairs. Sticking to home territory, he ran up an honest record that his opponent could not attack. By the end of his present (second) term, he will have piled up a $40,000,000 surplus. Only other Republican to serve three terms as Ohio governor was Rutherford B. Hayes, who ended up in the White House. John Bricker's friends have hopes...
...Washington last week was finally stirred by the growing seriousness of the manpower muddle (TIME, Oct.5), but while others vacillated a man from Minnesota spoke out. Startled by the acute shortage of farm labor in his own State, Governor Harold Edward Stassen took the bull by the horns. He ordained an emergency manpower program for Minnesota...
Birthplace of this program was Washington, but the baby is strictly Minnesota's. Governor Stassen went to the Capital, he explained, in an attempt to get manpower action from Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt and Draft Boss Major General Lewis B. Hershey. Getting promises but no action, Governor Stassen scribbled an eleven-point plan in a borrowed notebook, telephoned it from his hotel to St. Paul. Said he: "Either we are going to have . . . more women employed ... or we are going to have disorder. That's what we've been having...
...Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor went to rugged, hardworking Ed Thye, Northfield farmer whom Stassen made deputy State Agriculture Commissioner. Thus Stassen, who plans to give up office in April for active duty in the Navy, named his own successor...