Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...March 10) has spread out over some 7,000 sq. mi. The latest case was found less than 50 miles from the U.S. border, raising the greatest danger to the U.S. livestock industry since the last U.S. outbreak in 1929. Washington ordered extra inspection patrols into Montana and North Dakota to strengthen the guard against the virus...
Rarely does the ex-President let the story of his twelve years in Washington get in the way of statistical detail, but occasionally a light note slips in, e.g., the time that hornyhanded Senator Norbeck of South Dakota, in the midst of a powerful political delivery at dinner, placed his ice cream on one of Mrs. Hoover's prized Belgian lace doilies and gulped down doily and all. But in the four presidential years, which plunged, only a few months after Inauguration Day, into the opaque depths of the Great Depression, there was a minimum of things to laugh...
Raymond D. Gastil of Alpine, California and Adams House, majoring in Social Relations; Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. of Columbus, Ohio and Leverett House, majoring in Government; Joseph V. Messer of Watertown, South Dakota and Lowell House, majoring in Biological Science; George Weisz of Brooklyn, New York and Kirkland House, majoring in Government...
...briskly, "but I have the records of this $10,000 item . . . which is covered by my check of May 8, 1950, I believe." His explanation: as chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee in 1950, he thought it advisable to help out California's Richard Nixon and North Dakota's Milton Young in their primary campaigns. Under campaign rules, Brewster was not allowed to spend the committee's money in primaries to help one Republican against another, but he felt that these were exceptional cases and he personally borrowed $10,000 to help Nixon and Young...
...votes: one Democrat-Nevada's Pat McCarran, and nine Republicans-Illinois' Dirksen, Idaho's Welker and Dworshak, Montana's Ecton, Indiana's Jenner, Missouri's Kem, Nevada's Malone, Wisconsin's McCarthy, North Dakota's Young...