Word: dakotan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the next three years he saw 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...
...signed his mail. The Senate restaurant was kept open; the jammed galleries tittered and yawned; all but half a dozen Senators creaked out to nap in the cloakrooms. At 7:30 p.m. they were summoned back to the floor by a Langer quorum call. They found the sagging North Dakotan chewing the mangled end of a cellophane-wrapped cigar...
Authors and star performers of the Midwest's little assault on ballet's classic tradition: raven-haired, energetic Ruth Page, high priestess of the dance in Chicago; and Technical Sergeant Bentley Stone, 34, a lanky South Dakotan who got a seven-day furlough from his Air Forces base in Kansas to dance "Johnnie." The Page-Stone team has authored two other U.S. ballets: Hear Ye! Hear Ye! (a nightclub murder) and Gold Standard (a sugar-daddy romance...
...Duke" Hedman, the Flying Tiger who was personally decorated by Madame Chiang Kai-shek-and Warren Evans, chosen the typical American Ranger-and Don Smith who was decorated after flying with Doolittle over Tokyo. . . . Their deeds are first of all American, I grant you, but they are also Dakotan...