Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voters showed their internationalist sympathies in ousting Republicans. To defeat went North Dakota's slippery Isolationist Gerald P. Nye, Pennsylvania's Isolationist James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis, and Connecticut's John Danaher. All were replaced by men pledged to U.S. cooperation in world affairs: Governor John Moses in North Dakota, Congressman Francis J. Myers in Pennsylvania, and ex-U.S. Assistant Attorney General Brien McMahon in Connecticut...
...Iowa, old-line Democratic Isolationist Guy M. Gillette was trounced by Iowa's short, balding Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper, an able, popular Governor with internationalist leanings. South Dakota's Chan Gurney, a Republican who has supported the Roosevelt foreign policy 100%, won easy reelection. In Washington, the seat vacated by pre-Pearl Harbor Isolationist Homer Bone went to honey-haired Congressman Warren Magnuson, a 1,000% New Dealer...
...there were 26 Republicans, 22 Democratic governors. When the voting was over (barring last-minute shifts), it was just the other way about. The U.S. had 26 Democratic and 22 Republican governors. From the G.O.P. to the Democratic side: Idaho, Massachusetts, Missouri, Ohio, Washington. From Democratic to G.O.P.: North Dakota...
Lauritz Melchior, big, Danish-born No. 1 Wagnerian tenor of the Metropolitan, on vacation in South Dakota's Black Hills, dressed himself in demi-Danish hunting costume, by special permit brought down an 1,800-lb. buffalo...
...Ralph E. Himstead, executive secretary of the august American Association of University Professors, to suggest that the Board "take another look at these three young men (the fired economists)." When the Regents declined to take the hint, Himstead reminded them of "what happened" to the University of North Dakota when Governor Langer fired four deans and 16 professors. "Our degrees are at stake," howled Texas' students, who knew, if the Regents did not, that disapproval by the A.A.U.P. would mean a mass emigration of Texas professors and an irrevocable loss of prestige to Texas...