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...fortnight, the husky, serious, silo-tall young man who was Minnesota's Governor had been working 15 hours a day to clean off his desk. In & out of Harold Stassen's deep-carpeted office in the State Capitol went men on last-minute business: legislators, businessmen, labor leaders, Republican bigwigs. Harold Stassen listened to all of them, between interruptions plugged away at humdrum details. On the floor above the Legislature dragged to a close...
...soon as the Legislature adjourned, Harold Stassen would be free to keep a promise made more than a year ago, before he was elected to his third term as Governor: to go on active naval duty as a lieutenant commander. As a Governor, and an able one, Harold Stassen easily qualified as an essential civilian. As a strapping, active man of 36, he felt otherwise. He had said: "This war will be fought by young men of my age, and I want to be with them...
Wait and Work. For the next two days, Harold Stassen followed the same routine, working and waiting all day and half the night. He signed and vetoed bills, suggested a tax compromise to top Senators and Representatives. Into his office trooped a group of C.I.O. leaders to demand a veto of certain labor bills (outlawing jurisdictional strikes, calling for union elections at least every four years). Harold Stassen looked at the bills, said he did not think they would hamper "good unions." The conference broke up amicably; said a departing C.I.O. leader: "Sink a few Japs for us, Governor...
After three days, the tax deadlock was broken. The Governor's compromise had won. Harold Stassen drank a glass of milk in celebration. To the Governor's office came tall, husky Lieut. Governor Ed Thye (pronounced "thigh"), Harold Stassen's hand-picked successor. Said Ed Thye: "Governor, if you hadn't staked all your chips on me, I wouldn't be where I am today, and I want you to know I appreciate it." Said Harold Stassen, with proper modesty: "You did it yourself...
...Congressman will address a closed Faculty lunch before the meeting. Ball, a Republican, first appointed in 1940 by Governor Stassen to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Lundeen, was elected for a full term last year...