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...history, more than the 253,000 Republican and 81,000 Democratic votes put together. So Laborite Benson's forces inferred that Farmerite Petersen had recruited much of his support from Republican and Democratic conservatives. This claim was supported by the fact that conservative Republican Martin Nelson, twice his party's gubernatorial nominee, was squeezed out by 32-year-old progressive Harold Stassen. Net result of the hyphen primary was to leave Minnesota's conservatives thoroughly dissatisfied, make it doubly necessary for the New Deal to support Governor Benson lest Republicans get an inner track on Minnesota...
...farm homes in the U. S., today nearly 20% are wired for electricity. That is almost twice as many as were electrified when REA started operations in 1935. Since then REA has lent $90,000,000 to nearly 400 cooperatives, helped build some 84,000 miles of lines, which it strings at a cost not exceeding $1,000 a mile. Private utilities had been charging customers from $1,500 to $2,500 a mile for stringing lines to their doors. In 20 projects, notably The Thumb Cooperative, REA has also financed the building of generators, but other projects buy their...
French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet urged Leftist Spain to think twice before sending bombers over Italy, warned Premier Dr. Juan Negrin's Government that it could expect little sympathy or aid from France in that event. In Italy, the controlled press fumed at "Red Spain." Benito Mussolini's journalistic spokesman, Virginio Gayda, writing in Giornale d'Italia, said Italy's answer to Leftist bombs "will be immediate and implacable, not with diplomatic notes of protest, but with cannon." Italian Chargé d'Affaires Renato Prunas warned M. Bonnet in Paris: "We shall reply to acts...
...French Parliament, Communist and Rightist deputies howled at each other over the question of aid to Leftist Spain, were prevented from fistfighting on the Chamber floor only by a hastily formed wall of old-soldier ushers. Speaker of the Chamber Edouard Herriot suspended the sitting twice to restore order and next day Premier Edouard Daladier adjourned Parliament until November, thus freeing his hands to do as he likes without parliamentary interference. Reported moved to the Spanish Leftist border as a frontier patrol were 30,000 Mobile Guards. Then came the official announcement that no longer would France allow munitions from...
...golf, two loos at trapshooting, two 300s at bowling, it is the pinnacle of U. S. sporting performance. Only nine pitchers in the long history of major-league baseball had ever succeeded in getting two no-hit, no-run games in a lifetime. No one had ever done it twice in one season. Young Vander Meer, in his first full year in the major leagues, had done it twice within five days...