Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slow-talking, 36-year-old Farmer Butters did not launch his odd scheme without encountering certain difficulties. First he had to find some buffalo. The Government finally agreed to sell him a herd then roaming the Sioux Indian reservation in South Dakota. Then bankers were skittish about lending him the purchase price. Butters mortgaged his two farms and bought the herd...
...sympathies have sometimes been muted by party politics, and Wisconsin's loudmouthed Alexander Wiley, a determined pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist. To international-minded Senators, the new members were not much of an improvement over their predecessors: James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania and Gerald Nye of North Dakota...
Gerald Nye, 52, giving up the Senate seat in which North Dakota voters had kept him for 19 years, admitted: "I would be lacking completely in frankness were I to say that leaving . . . is painless. . . . Knowing that this might be the last time I will speak on this floor, there has been some temptation to make this . . . an 'I told you so' speech. . . . You see the gravity of the peril in which our foreign entanglements have involved us. . . . I am sure, knowing the power of British propaganda, that within 20 years-perhaps within ten years-we shall...
Mere driblets came from mines in South Dakota and New Mexico. Most of the U.S. supply was flown in from Brazil, with a higher priority (A1) than admirals. Belgian Congo and Australia produced some tantalite ore, but shipping difficulties made it hard to get. Now a new source had been discovered in far northern Canada. The discoverer was a stocky, persevering prospector named Gustrne D. De Steffany...
...Secretary Stettinius ( See Cover ) The Senate's Lone Ranger, North Dakota's Bill Langer, took the floor one day last week. He had an objection to make, to the appointment of Edward R. Stettinius Jr. as Secretary of State. The objection took up two and a half hours of his and the Senate's time, and filled 57 columns of type in the Congressional Record. But Bill Langer spoke with the air of a man who knew the truth of Ben Franklin's dictum that he who spits against the wind spits in his own face...