Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Career. A lawyer by profession, he has been appointed to one public office (delegate to the San Francisco conference), elected to two (Dakota County attorney in 1929, re-elected in 1933; governor of Minnesota in 1938, re-elected in 1940 and 1942); never defeated in any election. In 1940, at 33, he was keynoter of the G.O.P. convention in Philadelphia, became Wendell Willkie's floor manager. In 1942 he was commissioned a lieutenant commander in the Navy, was discharged as a captain...
Born on a South Dakota ranch, beefy Bill Williams played on two college football teams (Wisconsin and Centre College, Danville, Ky.). He had been a Burns detective, a Yellowstone guide, and city editor of the Minneapolis Journal before he joined Fawcett in 1941. He was put to work editing Mechanix Illustrated, ran its circulation up from 216,000 to 440,000. Then he was handed True and told to make it a "general magazine for men." He tossed out the horror tales, switched to slick paper, went hunting for good writers (C. S. Forester, Budd Schulberg, Lucian Cary) and began...
...know, between the Wallace line and the Communist line on ERP? Replied Henry stiffly: "I am not familiar with the Communist approach. I am not prepared to discuss it. I don't know what the Communist objection is. I don't follow the Communist literature." South Dakota's Karl Mundt asked him if he thought Russia was meddling in European affairs. No one could say for sure, Wallace replied, because it was "impossible to get at the truth from what we read in the American press." The press and committee members laughed...
Along with goldfish gulping and backgammon, the last few years have witnessed the virtual disappearance of rugger from the Cambridge scene. To the contemporary undergraduate the name "rugby" might identify a town in North Dakota exalted as "the geographic center of North America" just as readily as it would be associated with a British athletic indulgence occasionally practiced in the United States...
Busman. South Dakota-born Dr. Ochsner, married and the father of four, says that his only real hobby is his work. Once in a long while he goes trout-fishing in Madison River, Idaho. His trips to Latin America are a busman's holiday: on a 1941 junket to Panama, he gave 29 lectures at Gorgas Memorial Institute, did 40 operations at Santo Tomas Hospital...