Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lesson of South Dakota's Republican primary last week was that the race goes to him who campaigns for it. Chubby Chan Gurney, one of the few Midwest Senators who early saw beyond isolationism, had served two terms and saw no reason why he wouldn't be re-elected for a third. He stayed in Washington...
...weeks before election, Gurney went to South Dakota. By then it was too late. Underdog Case won, 58,000 to 43,000. Commented Vermont's Senator George Aiken: "It made some of those who are up for re-election realize they had better go back home to do some politicking...
Died. William Lemke, 71, eight-term U.S. Congressman from North Dakota (he listed himself as "nonpartisan, elected on the Republican ticket"), co-sponsor of 1934's much-debated Frazier-Lemke Farm-Mortgage Act, 1936 presidential candidate of the short-lived Union Party founded by Father Charles E. Coughlin and the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith (he polled 882,479 votes); in Fargo...
Natural Law. In South Dakota he was once called to a farmhouse where the father of five children had died while convalescing from typhoid. To the widow's tearful question, "Why did God take my husband?", Harkness made the stock answer: it was the will of God to which all must submit. But on the drive back to town, the doctor turned to the minister to ask: "Why did you tell her that nonsense about the will of God? Against my strict orders she gave her husband a meal of fried pork, and it killed him." Then, says Harkness...
...nine-month pregnancy, the Senate Judiciary Committee has delivered itself of Mr. Mundt's new bill "to protect the United States against certain un-American and subversive activities, and for other purposes." The bill is one of the most comprehensive threats to civil liberties that the gentleman from South Dakota has yet conceived...