Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fred George Aandahl, 55, North Dakota farmer and politician (ex-Congressman, ex-governor), to be Assistant Secretary in charge of the Division of Water and Power. As a candidate for the Republican senatorial nomination last summer. Aandahl made an enemy of Senator William Langer, also a candidate. Langer won both the primary and the November election, and last week he faced Aandahl at a hearing of the Senate Interior Committee, which passed on the four Interior Department appointees. Happy after all to see a fellow North Dakotan in a high-Government post and a rival North Dakotan out of state...
...composed, the Foreign Relations Committee consists of eight Republicans (including chairman Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin) and seven Democrats. On the Republican side are semi-reactionaries Taft of Ohio and Hicken-looper of lowa, moderates Knowland of California and Langer of North Dakota, semi-liberals Smith of New Jersey and Ferguson of Michigan, and in a category all his own, Tobey of New Hampshire, an enigmatic character in the political spectrum. Chairman Wiley is decidedly as internationalist. On the other side of the table are Democrats Green of Rhode Island. Fulbright of Arkansas, Sparkman of Alabama, Gillette of Iowa, Humphrey...
...Republican William Langer of North Dakota...
...conference took place around Ike's luncheon table at the Commodore. For 2½ hours the President-elect talked things over with the new Republican high command in the Senate: Ohio's Robert Taft, New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall, North Dakota's Milton Young. The purpose of the get-together was to establish firm working liaison between executive and legislature and to straighten out patronage procedures...
...grabbed a phone and called Prime Minister Malan. It was midnight, and the Prime Minister was in bed and asleep. He stumbled to the telephone in his pajamas and heard the excited ichthyologist pleading for an airplane to take him to the fish. Malan acted quickly. Next morning a Dakota (DC-3) of the South African air force took off for the Mozambique Channel, with Dr. Smith fretting in the cabin. It made a landing on the small French island of Dzaoudzi, more than 1,500 miles away. There Dr. Smith found his fish, rank but undecayed, on Trader Hunt...