Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican top brass hit hard at the Truman tactics. Said South Dakota's Senator Karl E. Mundt: "Never has a retiring President campaigned in this manner. He is making it difficult for any decent Americans to vote Democratic in 1952." Then, in words addressed especially to Catholics and Jews, Mundt added: "Despite the fact that over a hundred leading national organizations, including the National Catholic Welfare Council, endorsed the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, Mr. Truman blandly cries it is 'anti-Catholic.' The man who smashed the greatest enemy of the Jews in modern times, Adolf Hitler...
...significance attached to Truman by the Republican opposition was attested by the G.O.P.'s first countermove: Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson, Iowa's Senator Bourke Hickenlooper and South Dakota's Senator Francis Case joined to form a Republican "Truth Squad," set out to follow Truman through the same whistle stops and present the Republican rebuttal to his "facts." The Republican vigilance was thoroughly justified; the President was engaged in a no-holds-barred assault on the Republican Party's strongest asset. At Montana's Tiber Dam, Truman pushed down a plunger setting...
Truman praised North Dakota's nominally Republican Senator William ("Wild Bill") Langer, who was traveling on the Truman train. Langer has stood ace high with Truman ever since 1947 when he cast the deciding vote in committee against Senate investigation of the Kansas City vote fraud...