Bygones: In 1954, John Blatnik called Eisenhower’s staff ‘henchmen’

News-Tribune, Sept. 7, 1924

Officials will attempt to throw a 500 million candle power searchlight beam from a Washburn-Crosby Co. grain elevator in Minneapolis all the way to Duluth. The light is meant to enable aviators to find the city at night.

News-Tribune, Sept. 7, 1954

Rep. John A. Blatnik, D-Chisholm, declared at the Eveleth AFL-Carpenters Union picnic that President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s “henchmen” are “seeking to destroy unions,” and that the National Labor Relations Board is “packed with stooges.”

News-Tribune & Herald, Sept. 7, 1984

Roger J. Magnuson, an attorney hired by the Christian activist group Berean League Fund, urged Duluth residents to vote against an ordinance that would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, calling gay people “undesirables.”

News Tribune, Sept. 7, 2004

Duluth’s labor movement came together for its annual picnic on Labor Day seemingly unified in support for John Kerry and John Edwards, but divided in the Minnesota House District 6A race that pits Dave Dill and Bill Hansen in a primary.

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