Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cocky, too slick, too shallow, too ambitious, a brain-picker rather than a scholar, clever without being wise," is he not just another Senator Claghorn with a "new look"? Is modern statecraft so simple an art that it can be mastered by one who learns his economics from South Dakota dust storms, and campaigns by visiting all the county fairs and eating hot dogs until they "come out of his ears...
...most bitter winter the West had known since 1889, still remembered as the winter of the Great White Ruin. Since January's great blizzard (TIME, Jan. 17), one swirling snowstorm had followed another; Wyoming, Nebraska and South Dakota had been hit by 18 in 27 days. There had been incessant cold-temperatures had fallen as low as 40° below zero. Howling winds piled the snow in endless dunes. On the range, feed was buried deep; springs, watering troughs and streams were frozen; ranch houses were isolated, thousands of miles of roads were lost in drifts. Snow even covered...
...Orator. His father, a big, kindly, stoop-shouldered man, was a druggist who became a Democrat in Republican South Dakota when he heard William Jennings Bryan speak. By the time young Hubert was seven, his father was already reading Tom Paine and the life of Jefferson to him. Before he was out of grammar school, Hubert Jr. went along to Democratic rallies and conventions, saw his father become first alderman, then mayor of Doland...
...many a hard-working Dakotan come to poverty through no fault of his own. Merchants and farmers, caught in the same trap together, turned to the Government. Relief checks saved the town and the family business. Said Humphrey later: "I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years at college...
...Maryland farm, where he had hidden the pumpkin papers, Whittaker Chambers sat in an easy chair near a big Christmas tree that curled against the ceiling. Before him last week sat three eager listeners: South Dakota's Karl Mundt, California's Richard Nixon of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and the committee's retiring chief investigator, Robert Stripling. Chambers, under oath, puffed on a pipe as he gave further testimony in the Communist spy inquiry and interspersed it with his observations on the evidence already gathered...