Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When spiritual enthusiasts beat the material world at its own game, is it unfair competition? That is the question laid before South Dakota's Circuit Court for decision last week. The more than 1,500 Hutterites of South Dakota, living on 15 booming communal farms in the fertile valleys of the James and Missouri Rivers, are fighting a law that prohibits them from buying more land. Without more land the Hutterite communities in South Dakota are doomed...
...bearing arms, nor wearing gaudy clothing. As with so many severely odd Christian offshoots, the Hutterites soon found themselves hounded and on the move. In the 18th century they emigrated to Russia, in the 19th to the U.S. In 1918 their antiwar sentiments got them chased out of South Dakota to Canada, but in the early 1930s drought hit South Dakota; South Dakota farmers left the state in droves, and the Hutterites were invited back...
...check the Hutterite expansion, the South Dakota legislature put into effect last July 1 a new law which makes it illegal for Hutterite communes to buy more land in the state. Six weeks later a Hutterite colony near Redfield completed negotiations to buy 80 acres of land. The state went to court to void the deal, and the last legal briefs were submitted to the Circuit Court last week...
...best-known products of North Dakota are wheat, livestock, and Lawrence Welk. More than 30 million people tune their TV sets in each week on Welk, 53, and his "Champagne Music" (Sat. 9 p.m. E.D.T., ABC). In less than a year, listeners have boosted his Nielsen rating from a puny 7.1 to an astonishing 32.5. Welk and his 24-piece band are consistently beating the four NBC and CBS shows opposite him (People Are Funny, Jimmy Durante, Two for the Money, It's Always Jan). His delighted sponsor, the Dodge Division of Chrysler Corp.. has renewed his contract...
...Inevitably, the big question came up: had Chotiner ever consulted Vice President Nixon about his cli ents? On this point, Chotiner was clear and firm: "I never discuss the people I represent or my cases with Mr. Nixon. I never discuss my clients' business with him." Asked South Dakota's Karl Mundt...