Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Chief White Wolf, 72, one of the survivors of South Dakota's Wounded Knee Massacre; in an automobile crash, while en route to Washington to ask Congress to pay damages for the 1890 slaughter of Sioux by U. S. troops; in Bedford...
John C. Greene 2G, of Vermillion, South Dakota; A.M. Harvard; History...
Fiorello Henry LaGuardia. The 103rd Mayor of New York City (second tough est political job in the U. S.) is the greatest paradox of all the leaders. Thought of as an utter New Yorker, the duck-bottomed Little Flower spent his years from three to 20 in South Dakota, Arizona, Florida, is as Western as Nebraska's Norris, Wisconsin's La Follettes, Idaho's Borah. He talks the most direct American language of any leader, speaks Italian, German, Croatian, Yiddish, French, Spanish. Short, rubbery, unmilitary, he is a U. S. Army Air Corps major and a veteran...
...years ago linen rags were the only base for cigaret tissues. Then chemists made what seemed to many a layman an obvious discovery-that the rag stage could be bypassed and tissue could be made direct from flax. To U. S. flax farmers, principally in Minnesota, California and North Dakota, this means that Ecusta alone will take the crop from 75,000 to 100,000 acres. If other U. S. cigaret paper makers complete the switch from rag base to flax, farmers of another 75,000 to 100,000 acres will have found a market for their crop...
...breach of his office," growled Missouri's Senator Clark, demanding Jimmy's immediate recall. Ohio's Representative Sweeney: "We should have the courage to tell Cromwell and his lawfully wedded fortune, Doris Duke, to get the hell out of this Republic." Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota accused Jimmy of being a mere mouthpiece: "All that Cromwell was doing was reflecting the language and wishes of the President...