Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks later, the pilot sneaked Mrs. Lassetter aboard a big Dakota transport usually reserved for the private use of Britain's Japanese occupation commander, Lieut. General Sir Horace Robertson.That night she landed at a military airfield in southern Japan. She spent the following day hiding out in a poolroom. "I think you call it pool," she explained later. "Anyway, where they hit something with a stick...
...lights, as dyed-in-the-wool a conservative as a man could be-a wealthy Washington corporation lawyer, a Republican, an avowed isolationist. His Republicanism went way back -to the Hoover administration, when he was Assistant Attorney General, and beyond that, back to his days in North Dakota. Now his critics in Congress were questioning his loyalty...
...course, on the rest of the magazine for keeping up with other current happenings throughout the world. We couldn't operate without the magazine, and are indebted to you for your numerous aids for stimulating class routine."-A. E. Austin, Head of Department of Journalism, University of North Dakota...
...South Dakota banker, Funston worked his way through Trinity, graduated among the top ten of his class at Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He was purchasing director of the $20-million-a-year Sylvania Electric Products Inc. when Weinberg brought him into the War Production Board during World War II. Funston spent 2½ years "at the other end of Donald Nelson's buzzer," got on smoothly with top-flight industrialists and Washington politicos...
Benjamin Reifel 2 P.A. of Erwin, South Dakota was awarded one of the 53 John Hay Whitney "opportunity" fellowships to continue his graduate studies here, the Whitney Foundation announced yesterday...