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Alan Valentine, executive director of Democrats-for-Willkie, laid the blame for this nasty bit of work on Democratic National Chairman Edward J. Flynn and Publicity Director Charles Michelson. Governor Stassen angrily called on Boss Flynn to apologize to the State of Minnesota for "slurs upon the patriotism of the people...
Minnesota's young Governor Stassen has a streak that his critics call stubbornness and that his friends call a farsighted awareness of the new needs of a new time. Last week the Governor demonstrated this streak. To the post of the late Senator Ernest Lundeen he appointed-over the protests of Republican politicians -tall, lean, black-haired young Joseph Ball, who has been a newspaperman for 13 of his 34 years...
What made that appointment news was not that Governor Stassen passed over eligible oldsters like Congressman August H. Andresen. Nor was it that Governor Stassen simply made up his mind that Joe Ball would make a good Senator despite political considerations (he has already begun talking of Ball's re-election...
...reporter on the same paper, took a year off, like all newspapermen, to free-lance writing fiction. Back on the St. Paul Despatch and Pioneer Press, he began writing politics, fathered three children, was an active Newspaper Guildsman (but dropped out in disgust two years ago), became Governor Stassen's confidential political adviser and close friend during the campaign...
...Britain (with the Army and Navy to be the best judges of "how much and what sort of aid we can extend with safety"), 2) the election of Wendell Willkie. Because his 35th birthday comes next month he would register for the draft, as would Governor Stassen (33) and Lieutenant Governor C. Elmer Anderson (28), then leave for Washington to take the oath and begin work as the Senate's youngest Senator...