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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vegetables. Educated: St. Paul's Humboldt High School (1922); the University of Minnesota (1927); U. of M.'s law school (1929). Married: in 1929 to Esther Glewwe, his childhood sweetheart. Children: Glen, 12; Kathleen, 6. Church: Baptist. Nickname: "Red" (to his old college mates), "Skipper" (to his close political friends...
...four-year-old. He does much of his work at home, has a Dictaphone in the library where he wrote his book, Where I Stand. For recreation he likes to hunt (pheasant, quail, deer), play chess, take Glen fishing, go for long walks alone. He has few close friends outside his family, sees his father and brothers often (brother William is a sheet-metal worker, brother Elmer a grocer, brother Arthur a state employee). He has supported himself with articles and lectures (fee: $600 to $1,000), earned more than...
...start an argument is to ask a Canadian: "Why don't you come into a customs union with us?" A customs union, or some kind of economic union between the two countries, has been mooted off & on for 99 years.* Now ERP and Canada's increasingly close economic ties with the U.S. have made it a very live issue...
...disasters shaped the mood of the delegates convened at Nanking for China's first National Assembly. Out of the clamor of more than 2,500 peoples' delegates -talking, questioning, accusing, cursing-arose the authentic voice of China. Its tone was laden with tragic discontent, and with something close to despair...
Senator James P. Kem, Republican of Missouri, get in the first cracks of the evening, claiming that the GOP "supported and stood on the principles of the Constitution." The Democrats, he said, were like a "one-eyed mule--a left eyed mule--leaning forever to the left and close to falling into the ditch...