Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weird that the United States, billing itself as the last great bastion of democracy, can consistently woo men like Franco. Senator Chan Gurney of South Dakota, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has the answer. The Soviet menace is of such magnitude, he says, that we should let bygones be bygones and accept every one we happen to find on the same side of our military fence. There are other reasons Mr. Gurney fails to mention. Spain is a Catholic country and there will be a large Catholic vote in the coming elections here. Another reason centers...
...NORTH DAKOTA: No registration is required. Application for absentee ballot should be made to the County Auditor in the county of residence within 30 days preceding the election. All ballots must be notarized and sent to the voter's precinct before closing time on election...
...ancient Sioux held an oldtimers' reunion at South Dakota's Custer State Park. They were the last of the Indian band which had massacred Lieut. Colonel George A. Custer and 250 troopers of the 7th U.S. Cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. Now the buffalo were gone and the white man had taken their Black Hills. Said one irascible old brave: "I wish my people were strong enough to get them back...
Last week peace for millions was represented by a professor of physics who knew how atomic bombs went off but did not know how to stop them from going off (see cut). Dr. Daniel Q. Posin, professor of physics at North Dakota Agricultural College, had nothing very startling to say about The Bomb. He was newsworthy merely because when he said it he looked the way a lot of people felt...
...Shoulder. Thirteen years ago, Kup was a $32.50-a-week sportwriter on the Times. Son of a West Side bakery driver, he worked his way through Northwestern and the University of North Dakota, was a quarterback and college publicity man. His career as a pro footballer (with the Philadelphia Eagles) lasted only five games; a shoulder injury turned him into a sport reporter. In 1943 the Times let him try a column. Cracked Kup: "I spent all my time in nightclubs anyway...