Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back home in South Dakota after the war, rugged, curly-haired Joe Foss, the Marine Corps' top South Pacific air ace, found politicking almost as simple as a wingover and just as much fun. Everyone remembered that he had been the first U.S. flyer to tie Eddie Rickenbacker's World War I record by shooting down 26 Japs over Guadalcanal. In 1948, Minnehaha County elected him overwhelmingly to the state house of representatives...
Soon Joe Foss, who had left the Marines to become a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard, was flying all over the state acting as master of ceremonies for South Dakota's Miss America contest, dedicating baseball fields and leading airmen in a fancy repertoire of acrobatics. To questions about the future he bluntly replied: "I don't know myself what I'm going to do in 1950, but take a look at those in office...
...Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota, there was no cause for complaint except perhaps that hunters got their daily bag limit (four ducks) too quickly, often in the first 15 minutes. In the most northern lakes and sloughs, when the season was ending last week, connoisseurs had been hand-picking the breed of duck they would gun for, choosing them for flavor. Said one hunter down from Manitoba: "We all got canvasbacks. Had a camp rule that anyone who shot a duck besides a canvasback would be fined two-bits." On recipes there was a wide spread of opinion. Fast cooked...
Accent on Accents: There are too many Phi Beta Kappa members in government service, Senator Karl Mundt, South Dakota Republican, told newspaper executives in Chicago. "I shudder to think what the boys with the Harvard accents have cost the country in the last sixteen years," Mundt said, shuddering. Newsweek, October...
...nearly six hours, Washington's garrulous lightweight, Harry P. Cain, held the floor with a low-grade filibuster. The D.P. opponents talked on, counting on the dwindling attendance to aid their cause. At one time, only one Senator was left on the floor to hear North Dakota's William Langer...