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Willkie, said the statement, was nominated "by the Hitler formula" with the calculating support of Isolationist Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, anti-New Deal Congressman Charles Halleck of Indiana, and Harold Stassen, "the Governor of the 'German' State of the Union-Minnesota." Elwood. Ind.. Willkie's birthplace, the statement went on, barred Negroes as residents, put up signs warning: "Nigger, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on You". The document quoted Harlan Miller, columnist on the Boston Traveler, as saying that Willkie's favorite crack under emotional stress...
...fold after twelve years as a Farmer-Labor member of the U. S. Senate, poker-playing old Henrik Shipstead had no trouble walking off with the Republican Senatorial nomination. For GOPoliticos, it was like the good old days before Floyd Olson. They land-slid tough, able young Governor Harold Stassen in on his way to a second term...
...Rushville went New York's J. Russel Sprague, Massachusetts' Sinclair Weeks, Connecticut's Sam Pryor, Minnesota's keynoting young Governor Stassen, Ohio's Taft man, David Ingalls. Pennsylvania's James Torrance, whose boys lost the State by 660,000 in 1936, carried it by 280,000 in 1938, are wondering whether Wendell Willkie is the man who can carry it by 750,000 in November. They sat down in the Lodge room, munched at their 75? luncheon, while the ladies of the Eastern Star fluttered happily in the background. They watched the candidate, quick...
...Chicago in the hands of John D. M. Hamilton, an able executive who is largely responsible for the fact that the Republican Party did not start this campaign with a back-breaking deficit. Working with Executive Hamilton was 6 ft. 3 in., 33-year-old Governor Harold Edward Stassen of Minnesota. His job: to do the politicking in the western campaign...
...news of the worst crash in the history of U. S. aviation ended 17 months of safe operation. It stunned Washington. It had political repercussions: because among the dead was Minnesota's 62-year-old Farmer-Labor Senator Ernest Lundeen, whose successor will be named by Republican Governor Stassen; because after the crash in 1935 which killed Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico, Senator Lundeen voted to establish the independent Civil Aeronautics Authority (for air safety, development and regulation), and CAA was recently transferred to the Commerce Department. The crash also was a direct blow to several Government bureaus...