Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Great Discomfort. The opposition was represented by three points of view. First there were the hard-shelled isolationists like North Dakota's William Langer. They had a surprising ally in elderly, mustached Ralph Flanders of Vermont, a longtime internationalist. He thought the pact did not go far enough; he wanted to turn it into a rejuvenated U.N., equipped with its own international police force. Senator Flanders was convinced that the Politburo had set out to ruin us economically . . . by a "budgetary ambush," forcing the U.S. into a bankrupting arms race...
...along with 62,000 books, letters and manuscripts. Among the letters was one from Christopher Columbus' son, Diego, to Charles I of Spain. Another, written by General George Custer, ends: "You will next hear from me . . . not from the plains of Philippi . . . but from those of Dakota, the home of S.B." The initials stood for Custer's Sioux conqueror, Sitting Bull...
...North Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas...
...cold for three years. Barred from organized baseball, Max Lanier, ex-pitching star for the St. Louis Cardinals, made a living with Drummondville of the outlaw Quebec Provincial League; ex-Dodger Catcher Mickey Owen tried his hand as an auctioneer and played semi-pro ball in South Dakota; others played for peanuts in Venezuela...
...October, Lieut. George F. Gorman of the North Dakota National Guard re ported that he had had a dogfight with a flying saucer Over Fargo. He was heading for his airfield in his FSI at night when he saw a mysterious light "six to eigh inches in diameter, clear white and com pletely round with a sort of fuzz at the edges." Lieut. Gorman dived at the light the light dived at Gorman. Round & round they went for 27 minutes. Then the light put on speed and tore out of sight on a northwest-north heading...