Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Dakota's Democratic Governor William Guy sent Wallace a telegram criticizing the "white conscience" of Alabama. Pianist Byron Janis protested by canceling a scheduled concert recital in Mobile. In city after city, civil rights groups mounted protest demonstrations. In Selma, the Negroes stood in nightlong vigils under the wary eyes of police. Selma's Negroes and a growing number of white ministers-and even several white Roman Catholic nuns from St. Louis-demonstrated, but they were kept in check, without resort to passion or clubs, by Public Safety Director Baker...
...crediting the Honorable George S. McGovern to North Dakota [Feb. 26], you short changed my native state by one Senator, leaving the entire burden upon the Honorable Karl E. Mundt. All loyal sons of South Dakota protest this realignment of the Senate of the United States...
...Senate, Idaho Democrat Frank Church declared that Viet Nam is "a war we cannot finish," called for a settlement guaranteed by the United Nations or a special peace-keeping force. North Dakota Democrat George McGovern said his mail has been running 15 to 1 for negotiations, said: "It is not appeasement to recognize that the problem of Southeast Asia does not lend itself to a military solution...
That gleaming dome of the Capitol is all very well, but South Dakota's Democratic Senator George S. McGovern, 42, found himself emulating it a couple of years ago, as a result of a siege of hepatitis. Last week, while introducing a bill to boost Government-maintained prices on domestic wheat to 100% of parity, McGovern displayed a return to parity himself, with the aid of what the trade calls a "partial hairpiece." Several of his colleagues thought it was pretty funny, but McGovern silenced them with a farm metaphor. Said he: "When the shingles start corning...
...Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, Oregon, South Dakota...