Word: stambaugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become a member of the Bank's board, the President named plain, ambitious Lynn Upshaw Stambaugh, onetime national commander of the American Legion. Since his defeat in a three-cornered race for U.S. Senator in 1944, the North Dakota Republican has been a practicing corporation lawyer...
...Bricker's campaign special chuffed through the state, two Senatorial candidates clambered aboard. One was slick, slippery Gerald Prentice Nye, 51, the old-line, Old Guard isolationist who has warmed one of North Dakota's Senate seats for 19 long years. The other was bespectacled Lynn Upshaw Stambaugh, 54, whom Gerald Nye tossed out by 972 votes in a hot, three-cornered GOPrimary last June (TIME, July 10). Stambaugh, an able Fargo lawyer, onetime (1941-42) National Commander of the American Legion, a man who believes deeply in international cooperation, is running as an independent in the November...
...candidates. Both jockeyed for official G.O.P. favor. But the significance of this adroit move, obviously sanctioned by the high command, was not lost on North Dakotans. It was plain that Tom Dewey had ordered no more than the merest routine courtesy to Isolationist Nye, and had given Independent Lynn Stambaugh a pat on the back. This was also typical Dewey caution...
Meanwhile, North Dakotans saw more of Gerald Nye than they had at any time in the last six years, as he fretfully stumped the backwoods. But the grain growers and stockmen, who decide North Dakota elections, stayed away. Lynn Stambaugh, a rough and tumble speaker, forthrightly hammered hard at Gerald Nye's stubborn isolationism...
...last week's three-cornered Republican primary, Gerald Nye put up the toughest fight of his 18-year career to hold his Senate seat (TIME, June 19). Among city voters, his strongest competition was able Lynn U. Stambaugh, international-minded Fargo lawyer and onetime National Commander of the American Legion. But most of North Dakota's decisive rural vote was slated to go to Congressman Usher L. Burdick, 65, an isolationist who had learned better. The downpour which kept farmers from the polls was rain from heaven to Gerald Nye, who gathered in 38,082 votes. Stambaugh, contrary...