Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Dakota (8): Bereft of Kefauver, undecided but hoping to wind up with the winning candidate...
...South Dakota (8): Kefauver won the primary; the delegation is looking for a new man, with a majority seeming to favor Harriman, despite the pro-Stevenson influence of Native Son Hubert Humphrey, presently of Minnesota...
Spiritual followers of Jacob Hutter, a 16th century Moravian patriarch who preached literal obedience to the Scriptures, the Hutterites first settled in South Dakota; in 1918 many of them moved to Alberta to escape U.S. draft laws. They established seven colonies, or Bruderhofe, each with 50 to 75 members. As each colony became overcrowded, it divided its assets to set up a new Bruderhof...
...this point the member just about abandons all hope of.coming out of the session with complete mental balance," North Dakota Congressman Usher Burdick wrote to his constituents about the frantic last days. "People who want this or that bill swarm the Capitol in person or flood the Congressmen with letters and telegrams, some even threatening members with political extinction unless ..." Amid the tumult and turmoil the Congress nevertheless got plenty of action (or inaction) on "this or that bill...
...Mahoney, "is marshaling all the pressure it can" against the bill on the theory that "if the Hell's Canyon bill can be defeated, Wayne Morse can also be defeated." In the end, an almost solid phalanx of Republicans (exceptions: Wisconsin's Alex Wiley and North Dakota's Bill Langer), joined by eight conservative Southern Democrats, struck a blow for President Eisenhower's partnership policy of power development. They defeated the Democratic bill, 51 to 41. Mourned Oregon's Morse: "A tragic blow to the welfare of the nation"-not to mention to the welfare...