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	<b>Floydb> B. Olson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		<b>Floydb> B. Olson was born on the north side of Minneapolis, Minnesota to a Norwegian father and a Swedish mother.
		The next year, Olson enrolled at the University of Minnesota, but left after only a year, during which he was constantly in trouble for wearing a derby in violation of school rules and for refusing to participate in required ROTC drills.
		Forming a coalition of farmers, organized labor, and small businessmen, Olson swept to a landslide victory in the election, receiving 59% of the vote in a four-way race and winning 82 of the state's 87 counties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Floyd_B._Olson (1184 words)

	<b>Floydb> of Rosedale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A bet in 1935 between Minnesota Governor <b>Floydb> B. Olson and Iowa Governor Clyde Herring gave birth to <b>Floydb> of Rosedale.
		As of 2005, <b>Floydb> resides in Iowa City, where he has been for the past 4 years.
		Olson gave the pig to the University of Minnesota and commissioned St.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Floyd_of_Rosedale (190 words)

	Olson, <b>Floydb> B
		<b>Floydb> Benith Olson was born on December 7, 1910 in Saskatchewan, Canada, the son of Sygrud and Mae Olson.
		<b>Floydb> is survived by his wife, Mabel; two daughters, Jane Bonander of White Bear Lake and Suellen (Carl) Rundquist of Arden Hills; one son, Thomas (Harriet) Olson of Norwalk, CA; five grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and two sisters, Betty Bowers of New York Mills and Martha Stenseth of Thief River Falls.
		For the past tow years, <b>Floydb> was an important part of the Otter Tail County Volunteer Transportation program, helping retirees and seniors get to and from doctor's appointments.
	www.trftimes.com /obits/Olson_Floyd_B.htm (258 words)

	MNHS.ORG : Governors of Minnesota <b>Floydb> B. (Bjørnstjerne) Olson
		By the time he was elected the state's first Farmer-Labor Party governor, Olson's reputation as a tough-talking man of the people was sealed, and his skills as a canny politician and radio orator were well honed.
		Olson was the son of poor Scandinavian immigrants who settled in north Minneapolis.
		In each of three successive campaigns, Olson spoke more vehemently against "the failure of government and our social system to function in the interests of the common happiness of the people." After each election he urged more legislation to alleviate the Depression's devastating effects.
	www.state.mn.us /ebranch/mhs/people/governors/gov/gov_24.htm (302 words)

	<b>Floydb> B. Olson
		<b>Floydb> Olson continued to be active in politics until his death on 22nd August, 1936.
		<b>Floydb> Bjerstjerne Olson was born on 13th November, 1891.
		Olson became a lawyer and in 1920 was appointed as Hennepin County Attorney.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAolsonFB.htm (354 words)

	<b>Floydb> B. Olson Page
		<b>Floydb> Bjerstjerne Olson was born November 13, 1891 on the North Side of Minneapolis to a Norwegian father and a Swedish mother.
		Olson left after one year during which he made a name for himself among the upperclassmen by wearing a large derby in defiance of traditional rules requiring freshman submission and in the administration by refusing to participate in the ROTC drills required of all male students.
		Olson returned to Minneapolis in 1913 and enrolled in Northwestern Law College, a night-school offering J.D.s (called by at least one scholar of Olson a "diploma mill" -- today that school is the William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul).
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Senate/8713/life.html (1074 words)

	<b>Floydb> B. Olson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		<b>Floydb> Björnstjerne Olson (November 13, 1891–August 22, 1936) was an American politician.
		Olson's home at 1914 W. 49th St. in Minneapolis was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
		This article about an American politician is a stub.
	www.westerville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Floyd_B._Olson (164 words)

	Organizational Change - Document Overview
		<b>Floydb> B. Olson acted as an agent of change during the early years of the Great Depression.
		The <b>Floydb> B. Olson section introduces the concept of sub-groups within an organization.
		In the 1930's Minnesota elected <b>Floydb> B. Olson, the state's first and only socialist governor.
	www.jpc-training.com /change/overview.html (1386 words)

	Farmer-Labor Movement History
		<b>Floydb> Olson was elected governor, beginning the third and most successful period of Farmer-Labor history, the HIGHTIDE (1930-38).
		Olson proposed relief for the unemployed, a moratorium on farm foreclosures, and a state income tax based on a progressive rate structure, as well as reorganization of the state's conservation efforts, and state support for public utilities.
		Olson stumped Holiday strongholds in the Fall, and convinced farmers of his sincerity in hard hitting speeches up- holding their right to strike, in a style that would become famous in the months ahead.
	justcomm.org /fla-hist.htm (19129 words)

	<b>Floydb> B. Olson Page
		This site is devoted to the political career and thought of <b>Floydb> B. Olson, former governor of the great state of Minnesota, and of his political party, the Minnesota Farmer Labor Association.
		Olson was governor of Minnesota and the head of the Minnesota Farmer Labor Association from 1931-1936.
		"A true champion of the people," in the words of Senator Elmer Benson, Olson was the most successful leader of the populist left of his day, and in fact of any day.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Senate/8713 (224 words)

	Olson proposal makes some angry
		MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A suggestion to change the name of <b>Floydb> B. Olson Highway has stirred some ire.
		Olson led the Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota in its infancy and governed Minnesota during the Great Depression.
		Director David Strom says Olson may have been a good guy but that his economic policies hurt the state.
	www.kstp.com /article/stories/S5624.html?cat=64 (117 words)

	RON MALY
		Olson gave <b>Floydb> to the University of Minnesota and commissioned a sculptor to capture the pig’s image.The result was a bronze pig 21 inches long and 15 inches high.
		<b>Floydb> B. Olson, Minnesota’s governor, tried to calm the situation by offering <b>Floydb> as the reward for winning the Hawkeye-Gopher game.
		<b>Floydb> will be living in the football offices at the University of Iowa for the next year because the Hawkeyes walloped Minnesota, 40-22, Saturday in Kinnick Stadium.
	home.mchsi.com /~malyr/floydr.htm (1072 words)

	003.htm
		Agreeably to the provisions of this statute, complaint was made by <b>Floydb> B. Olson, county attorney of Hennepin county, against appellant charging him with a violation thereof.
		(b) a malicious, scandalous and defamatory newspaper, magazine or other periodical, is guilty of a nuisance, and all persons guilty of such nuisance may be enjoined, as hereinafter provided.
		Appellant demurred, raising by the demurrer solely the constitutionality of the statute (R. The [*2] demurrer was overruled.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/curiae/html/283-697/003.htm (6376 words)

	Minnesota Statutes 2005, 161.14
		(b) No advertising device as defined in section 173.02, subdivision 16, other than advertising devices described in section 173.08, subdivision 1, clauses (1) to (7), (9), and (10), may be erected or maintained in the area adjacent to the right-of-way of the C. Elmer Anderson Memorial Highway.
		(b) Subject to the provisions of section 161.139, the commissioner shall adopt a suitable marking design to mark the highway and shall erect the appropriate signs.
		(b) The route of the "Hiawatha Pioneer Trail" designated in paragraph (a) of this subdivision is the main route of the trail.
	www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us /stats/161/14.html (2849 words)

	Our House
		The highway is named after <b>Floydb> B Olson, Farmer-Labor Party Governor of Minnesota during the Depression.
		Olson is a hero for the labor movement in this state, and they would go to the wall to prevent this.
		If <b>Floydb> B had had his way, Minnesota would have looked a lot more like those socialist countries Ronald Reagan helped to liberate.
	www.ourhouseblog.com /archive/2004_08_01_archive.html (10749 words)

	Archives
		<b>Floydb> B. Olson declared martial law in Minneapolis and sent in the National Guard.
		In the meantime, Olson encouraged the truckers to organize, wrote Geogre Mayer, author of "The Political Career of <b>Floydb> B. Olson.
		President Roosevelt was in Minnesota attending a ceremony honoring the Mayo brothers and Olson "pleaded" with him to intervene in the strike, Stipanovich wrote.
	www.skywaynews.net /articles/2004/07/19/news/news01.txt (1574 words)

	1933May02.html
		Our Scandinavian governor, <b>Floydb> B. Olson, was liberal, a gifted speaker and a somewhat controversial individual as many progressive leaders are.
		Ove Olson always did, "Please pardon the personal reference." Later that summer I was attending a large gathering of 4-H members from all over the state at the University Farm Campus.
		There I met a couple of our state leaders who told me that they had just been informed that Gov. Olson would like to speak to our assembly, and I was the logical one to introduce him because I had been elected state 4-H president that year.
	www.gustavus.edu /alumni/class/classletters/1933May02.html (484 words)

	Regan, John E., 1883-1946. Scrapbooks, 1932-1940.
		The end of the campaign is covered with <b>Floydb> B. Olson's reelection as Governor in the general election.
		This scrapbook continues with Regan's campaign for Governor in a three-way race against <b>Floydb> B. Olson, the incumbent Farmer-Laborite, and Earle Brown, the candidate of the Republicans.
		His opponents were <b>Floydb> B. Olson, the incumbent Farmer-Laborite, and Martin A. Nelson, the Republican candidate.
	www.lib.mnsu.edu /lib/archives/fas/smhc105.html (1048 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Olson
		Olson, Ascar — of Wahpeton, Richland County, N.Dak. Republican.
		Olson, Harold — of Cloquet, Carlton County, Minn. Republican.
		Olson, I. — of Jackson, Jackson County, Mich. Republican.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/olson.html (717 words)

	Profile of the Farmer-Labor Party
		The Farmer-Labor gubernatorial candidates of the twenties, including Magnus Johnson, <b>Floydb> B. Olson, and Ernest Lundeen, ran ahead of the Democrats but were defeated by their Republican opponents.
		For the collector, there are still a number of inexpensive items left from the campaigns of such candidates as <b>Floydb> B. Olson and Elmer Benson.
		The first Farmer-Labor governor in Minnesota was <b>Floydb> B. Olson.
	www.cresswellslist.com /ballots2/farmer_l.htm (1944 words)

	Rocks Off: The Exiled on Main Street Weblog
		That's what <b>Floydb> B. Olson meant to the people of the state who lived through the Depression.
		The Taxpayers League of Minnesota wants to rename Highway 55 – the <b>Floydb> B. Olson Memorial Highway– in honor of the late President Ronald Reagan.
		1) <b>Floydb> B. Olson was the most popular governor this state has ever had.
	www.readexiled.com /blog/2004/08/olson-memorial-highway-forever.html (453 words)

	001.htm
		(b) A malicious, scandalous and defamatory newspaper, magazine or other periodical, is guilty of a nuisance, and all persons guilty of such nuisance may be enjoined, as hereinafter provided.
		An action was instituted in the District Court for the Fourth Judicial District, Hennepin County, Minnesota, under the above described statute by the County Attorney of Hennepin County against appellant and his copartner Guilford, for the purpose of having their newspaper declared a public nuisance and abated by injunction.
		The second section of the act provides that actions thereunder shall be brought by the County Attorney in the name of the State, or in certain contingencies by the Attorney General, or a citizen.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/curiae/html/283-697/001.htm (1399 words)

	NEAR v. STATE OF MINNESOTA EX REL. OLSON, 283 U.S. 697 (1931) -- US Supreme Court Cases from Justia & Oyez
		(b) a malicious, scandalous and defamatory newspaper, magazine or other periodical, is guilty of a nuisance, and all persons guilty of such nuisance may be enjoined, as hereinafter provided.
		Under this statute (section 1, clause (b), the county attorney of Hennepin county brought this action to enjoin the publication of what was described as a 'malicious, scandalous and defamatory newspaper, magazine or other periodical,' known as The Saturday Press.
		Without attempting to summarize the contents of the voluminous exhibits attached to the complaint, we deem it sufficient to say that the articles charged, in substance, that a Jewish gangster was in control of gambling, bootlegging, and racketeering in Minneapolis, and that law enforcing officers and agencies were not energetically performing their duties.
	www.justia.us /us/283/697/case.html (8794 words)

	Minnesota Politics: 08/22/2004 - 08/28/2004
		David Strom and those wacky Taxpayers League of Minnesota adherents want to bump off Governor <b>Floydb> B. Olson's name from the Olson Memorial Highway and name it after Ronald Reagan.
		History review for you, David: <b>Floydb> B. Olson was actually governor of Minnesota three times.
		Ronald Reagan was not from Minnesota, did not live in Minnesota, and did not win the vote in Minnesota in either 1980 or 1984.
	minnpolitics.blogspot.com /2004_08_22_minnpolitics_archive.html (1387 words)

	hawk central hawkeye football
		Dubbed <b>Floydb> after Gov. Olson, the pig was the brother of Blue Boy from the movie State Fair.
		<b>Floydb> of Rosedale enjoyed his longest tenure in Iowa City from 1993 to 1997.
		<b>Floydb> of Rosedale is heavy hardware that is worth its weight in tradition.
	www.hawkcentral.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/99999999/HAWKS/40727052 (421 words)

	City Pages - Life of the Party
		In Minnesota it began in 1930, when <b>Floydb> B. Olson was elected governor of Minnesota on the Farmer-Labor Party ticket, and he immediately instituted a series of radical reforms.
		Both <b>Floydb> B. Olson and Franklin Roosevelt distanced themselves from Communism, but many of their initiatives could have been plucked straight from the party platform, says Toini Mackie.
		And they came just in the nick of time, she adds with satisfaction: "This was during the Great Depression, and people were ready for revolution.
	www.citypages.com /databank/20/983/article8053.asp?page=4 (1217 words)

	pres.txt
		In January 1931, Farmer-Labor Gov. <b>Floydb> B. Olson and his Lt. Gov.
		They sought to soften their actions by having Arens appoint the rest of the committees, but the damage was done.
		Farmer-Laborites called the actions "a ruthless seizure of unwarranted power" and accused the Conservatives of ignoring their efforts to reach a compromise.
	www.house.leg.state.mn.us /hinfo/swkly/1995-96/select/pres.txt (1084 words)

	[Working-Class] WCS Announcements Digest
		Famed Farmer Labor Party governor <b>Floydb> B. Olson has taken some knocks recently, including a proposal to expunge his name from the state highway named for him.
		Olson got plenty of flack when he was alive too, including being accused of associating with Saint Paul's "notorious William Mahoney." What was Olson really like?
		THE REAL <b>FLOYDb> B. Tuesday, May 17 at 7 p.m.
	lists.ysu.edu /pipermail/working-class-studies/2005-May/000177.html (901 words)

	Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mayer, George H. The Political Career of <b>Floydb> B. Olson.
		Krause, Fayette F. A Study of Left Wing Politics in the Roosevelt Era.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minnesota_Farmer-Labor_Party (497 words)

	The Edit Barn: August 2004
		There is a statue of <b>Floydb> B. Olson in the Minnesota Capitol, and there is a <b>Floydb> B. Olson Memorial Highway.
		I'd like to tell you a little bit about <b>Floydb> B. Olson, who was elected governor of Minnesota three times in the 1930s.
		He helped forge the Farmer-Labor party, which was a hell of a lot of work, since he had to hold together an alliance of the Nonpartisan League (farmers), organized labor, and small businesses.
	editbarn.blogspot.com /2004_08_01_editbarn_archive.html (5186 words)

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