Word: thorkelson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Edward James Smythe, Klan and Bund go-between, he learned Smythe's candidates for the "nationalist cabinet" of tomorrow: Secretary of the Treasury, Father Coughlin; Secretary of the Navy, Jacob Thorkelson; Secretary of State, Senator Burton K. Wheeler; Secretary of Public Health & Morals, Representative Clare Hoffman...
...Republican primary the choice lies between a 57-year-old bachelor, Wellington D. Rankin (brother of pacifist Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin) and Jew-baiting, Fascist-minded ex-Congressman Jacob Thorkelson. Ignored by Montana's larger city newspapers, Jakie Thorkelson has conducted a busy rural campaign. His "issue": international bankers. All signs pointed to Rankin's nomination...
Tricky Campaigner Burton Wheeler, now estivating at his Glacier Park cabin, (thus "necessarily absent" from Senate roll calls), has once before jumped over to the Republican Party to beat an enemy. That was in 1938, when he backed Jakie Thorkelson to oust Representative Jerry O'Connell. Last week Montanans wondered whether Senator Wheeler, in the event Murray and Rankin are nominated, would again cross party lines. They wondered, too, on what issues Wheeler could campaign...