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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ninth Congressional District, Democrat Coya Knutson is beset with family and factional problems, but is expected to win narrowly over Odin Langen, a big, friendly Scandinavian state representative who should be right down the Ninth's alley. In the Third (near Minneapolis) District, crotchety Democrat Roy Wier always has trouble, always wins, and should again. At least two Republican incumbents are in much worse shape: Albert Quie, whose loss in Minnesota's solid Republican south could be a mortal blow to the G.O.P., and Veteran H. Carl Andersen, a leading Benson critic, who has long won against inferior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDWEST: Congressional Fights Tax the G.O.P. | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...clean" players on the bribe-prone 1948-49 Kentucky basketball team, was smothered by Democratic Incumbent John Watts, and Minnesota's 6 ft. 10 in. basketball All-America George Mikan of De Paul College failed to unseat the Third District's Democratic incumbent, 68-year-old Roy Wier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HOUSE: Changing Patterns | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...Stan Wier and Gwil Brown, both of Leverett, headed the scoring as the Bunnies trounced first place Kirkland in a 'B' House game last night. The Deacons, having clinched the championship, played with a depleted squad, while Leverett substituted freely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dudley Vanquishes Puritan Quintet; Bunnies, Elephants Also Victorious | 3/2/1951 | See Source »

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