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...Stassen will be old enough some day soon, and may well aspire then to be something solider than a keynoter. Already he is marked as a young man who has come far but should go farther. An ambitious farm boy, he worked his way through University of Minnesota as clerk in a store, "grease boy" in a bakery, sleeping car conductor on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. In the R. O. T. C., he was such a dead-shot with a rifle that he was put on as an act in an R. O. T. C. circus, where he shot...
...only a short while. With the help of Ryan, a Democrat, he got himself elected a Republican county attorney in 1930. He returned the favor by helping Ryan become city attorney, U. S. Congressman in 1934, again in 1936 and '38. (This year Republican Keynoter Stassen will have to decide whether he is going to support Democrat Elmer Ryan for a fourth term...
...When Stassen ran for Governor in 1938, against Farmer-Laborite Elmer Austin Benson, the red hair on his big head had begun to turn sorrel and recede. By that time he had perfected all he had learned about politics in college. To his natural informality was added a slow grin which revealed one snagged, gold-edged front tooth. Backed by Minnesota progressives and a rowdy, pistol-shooting, horse-riding organization from the South St. Paul stockyards, called the "Hook 'Em Cows," he won the election, became the youngest Governor...
...Young, liberal Republicans approve his record. He wrote an act to settle labor trouble by requiring a cooling-off period before a strike could be called or a lockout declared. The act worked like a charm: under his administration there has been not one serious industrial strike in Minnesota. Stassen's claims are that he has reduced State expenses, invested Minnesota's government with a new sense of integrity. But old-line politicians grumb that he has not taken care of the faithful...
...Stassen was a shrewd choice for keynoter not only because he is young but because he visibly represents the new-found strength of the Republicans. To run the convention as permanent chairman, the National Committee nominated a more experienced politician, well-worn Joe Martin. Minority Leader of the House...