Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also named to executive posts were Ray A. Goldberg '48 of Lowell House and Fargo, North Dakota, Treasurer, and Joseph D. Everingham '49 of Kirkland House and Clearwater, Florida, Secretary. The new executives will take office the last day of the examination period, serving with their fellow electees for a full year...
Valley City is a conservative little North Dakota town (pop. 6,000) with a leftist little newspaper. In its editorials the daily Times-Record has hailed Henry Wallace, railed against the Truman Doctrine, the "big corporations" and "the campaign of vilification" against Russia. Angry businessmen of Valley City put it up to the publisher: either he would right his leftist policy, or they would put him out of business. Among the complainers were some who had lent him the money to buy the paper two years...
While Republicans blinked and Democrats grinned, there came another blast. South Dakota's ultra-conservative Republican Senator Harlan J. Bushfield bounced up to declare, "The leaders of Congress are in confusion among themselves. . . . We have failed in everything which we promised the voters. ... I predict that unless the Republicans come alive . . . . they will fail again when the next election comes around...
...some of the top Republican leaders. It might mean lopping some $2 billion from War and Navy Department budgets. Secretary Patterson said this would cripple the Army; Secretary Marshall said it would cripple the occupation of Germany and Japan; Secretary Forrestal said it would cripple the Navy. South Dakota's Chan Gurney, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, agreed with the Cabinet members...
Last week, as a provincial committee prepared to consider new legislation to head off Hutterite expansion, committees led by war veterans drafted new protests. They wanted the wartime ban made permanent. Some Hutterites prepared to move to the U.S. where there were already colonies in South Dakota and Montana. But others, who still had some hope of democratic treatment at the hands of fellow Canadians, got ready to fight back. They argued that their holdings, 41 acres per head, were only one-tenth as large as their neighbors'. Said bearded Hutterite Peter Hofer: "We cannot live unless...