Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Authors Karl E. Mundt and Richard M. Nixon both won political triumphs last week. In South Dakota, Mundt won the Republican nomination for the Senate, is an almost certain winner in November. In California, Nixon won both the Republican and Democratic nominations, assuring him of re-election...
...South Dakota...
...bill was the Mundt-Nixon bill, introduced by South Dakota's Karl Mundt (who is now up for election as a Senator), and largely written by California's Richard M. Nixon, a lank, earnest Quaker attorney. It had come to the floor of the House from the Un-American Activities Committee...
...Senate listened hardest to South Dakota's Republican Chan Gurney. Sure, he agreed, it was "a stupendous pork barrel . . . but it will put pork chops and bacon and roast pork on millions of dinner tables." The Senators had added more than $101 million to the bill the House had already passed. But they had a good excuse for throwing economy out the window. The bill's whopping total-$640,253,200-was still about $25 million under the Administration's budget estimate. An overwhelming voice vote rolled the barrel to passage...
...Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Nebraska, North Carolina, North & South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia...