Word: youngdahl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was too much for Minnesota's Governor Luther Youngdahl. Next day, on his orders, about 2,500 National Guardsmen, swiftly mobilized in rural areas, moved into South St. Paul, Newport and Albert Lea, where there had been some slugging. It was the first time in 14 years that Minnesota's militia had been called to keep strike order...
...brought with him a whole troupe of campaigners: Minnesota's Governor Luther Youngdahl and Senator Ed Thye; Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy. While they stumped on their own, Stassen kept rolling: to a breakfast of the Platte County Republicans at Columbus (where he promised the Midwest a Secretary of Agriculture); to Norfolk (where he plumped for the inclusion of farm labor costs in parity prices) ; to Fremont (where he backed the Pick-Sloan plan for developing the Missouri River Valley, called for outlawing of the Communist party). He even found time to go to a Shrine circus...
...expected close finish, popular Stassenman Ed Thye breezed in ahead of longtime (24 years) isolationist Senator Henrik Shipstead with a 3-to-2 lead. With a near-record Republican turnout, winner Thye looked like a sure bet for the Senate in the fall. His running-mate, Luther Youngdahl, was nominated for the Minnesota governor's chair by an even larger majority...
...early weeks of listless campaigning, the confidence seemed well-placed. There were no fireworks, no weighty speeches, no burning issues. Amiable Ed Thye and his running-mate, gubernatorial candidate Luther Youngdahl, toured the back country, slapping backs, shaking hands, remembering faces. In the Minneapolis Tribune polls, Thye's popularity climbed: from...
...Myrtle Thye, who greatly enjoys being Minnesota's First Lady. There was gossip in Minneapolis that perhaps Harold Stassen himself had had a talk with her. There had been another point: there would have to be a strong candidate to succeed him. They settled on tall, teetotaling Luther Youngdahl, state Supreme Court justice...