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...nonpartisan, elected on the Republican ticket"), co-sponsor of 1934's much-debated Frazier-Lemke Farm-Mortgage Act, 1936 presidential candidate of the short-lived Union Party founded by Father Charles E. Coughlin and the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith (he polled 882,479 votes); in Fargo, N. Dak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 12, 1950 | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

...just couldn't afford to remain amateurs," said their father, David Bauer, who seven years ago gave up his regular job as an Aberdeen, S. Dak. golf pro to give full time to his daughters. U.S.G.A. and financial pressure had forced him to make the decision before Marlene, his most promising pupil, had another chance at the women's amateur title (she was put out in the semifinals last fall). Marlene had been named Woman Athlete of the Year for 1949 in an Associated Press poll, and the girls had dominated the winter circuit, but the next meal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two for the Money | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...know on what facts, or even estimates, this charge is based. The only actual studies of the water in the Missouri Basin have been made a committee of state engineers. These studies of the records for a fifty-year period show that the average annual flow at Yankton, S. Dak, is approximately 23,500,000 acre feet, which is more than 1,000,000 acre feet in excess of the amount estimated to be needed for all purposes. The figures have been checked by hydraulic engineers and include the records for the 12-years drought cycle from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Friends of Old man River | 2/25/1950 | See Source »

Double Reward. In Custer, S. Dak., Forestry Service Foreman Steven Hoy, who treated his own wounds after an accident, received a Red Cross Certificate of Merit for saving his own life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Little (pop. 900) Medina, N. Dak., which pronounces the name to rhyme with "refiner," got ready to vote on a proposal to change its pronunciation to rhyme with "arena," as a tribute to Federal Judge Harold R. Medina, who presided over the recent trial of eleven U.S. Communist big shots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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