Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Harry Schacter of the Kaufman-Straus department store in Louisville was only an observer at the annual meeting of the Friends of Kentucky Libraries. But the facts he heard from the Friends disturbed him. In library service, he learned, no state except North Dakota ranks lower than Kentucky: 80% of its rural population gets no such service at all. By the time the meeting was over, Harry Schacter had an idea...
...great U.S. wheat belt, from the panhandle of Texas to the border of Manitoba, the harvest was moving relentlessly northward. Last week the combines roared out of Nebraska and into the golden, knee-high fields of South Dakota. Although some areas were hurt by drought, the yield was generally good. But every bushel that came tumbling out of a combine's spout added to a critical farm problem. U.S. wheat bins are bursting with the greatest glut in history. When all this year's crop is in, the total supply is expected to be 1.7 billion bushels, more...
...explosive meeting, some Senators were close to fisticuffs. "Sit down and shut up!" North Dakota's Bill Langer shouted when McCarran, with obstruction in his Wedgwood eyes, started to talk. When Illinois' Everett Dirksen voted with the majority, Herman Welker was bitter. "The Senator from Illinois need never call on me to speak for his campaign committee," he snarled. "This is politics and nothing but politics. It is intended to elect Saltonstall, Ferguson and Hendrickson . . .* When I say where I stand, I stand up." Then Welker stood up. Then he sat down. Dirksen smiled faintly...
That night Ike settled into the South Dakota State Game Lodge where, in 1927, Calvin Coolidge outraged the nation's anglers by admitting that he was fishing for trout with worms. Redeeming his predecessor's conduct (which was denounced on the Senate floor by the late James A. Reed of Missouri), Ike offered the French Creek trout dry flies and a Colorado spinner. In a full day's fishing he caught a dozen trout. The biggest: a 15-incher weighing more than...
Reasons for Pleasure. Next day, six hours in the Columbine took Ike from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. There, at Dartmouth College's commencement exercises, the President marched up to receive an honorary doctorate, stumbling once over the unwieldy academic robes. But his oratorical touch was sure. With the graceful spire of the Dartmouth library as an appropriate backdrop, the President talked easily about the need for a future which values fun, courage, and the basic greatness of U.S. life. This brought him to a paragraph which was headlined...