Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drawn 800,000 visitors. The cowboy and Indian fans from all over Germany come for the festival, pitch tepees, fire blank pistols, call each other "Callamitty Jane" and, though few Germans can pronounce it, "Billy the Kid." And during the season, Bad Segeberg's best hotel offers "Dakota Weshungle mil Palushka Weshungle" (spiced buffalo meat with brown beans...
...scant hour after winging into Washington from South Dakota, Lawyer Joseph H. Botfum, 58-was sworn in on the Senate floor, replacing the late Republican Senator Francis Case. The diligent Dakotan helped found his state's first Young Republicans' chapter in 1934 and got Governor Archie Gubbrud's endorsement after rising to the lieutenant-governorship in 1960. No sooner was he in his seat than Bottum cast his first vote against a Democratic amendment to the NASA appropriations bill. Chuckled South Dakota's Senior Senator Karl Mundt: "It was a good start for a Republican...
...Shut Up!" While the FBI went to work. Freeman came under fire for an investigation conducted by his own department. South Dakota's crusty Republican Senator Karl Mundt, a member of the McClellan committee, complained that an Agriculture Department check of his correspondence with the department had inspired Democrats in his home state to ask Freeman for evidence of any connection between Mundt and Billie Sol. Growled Mundt to Minnesotan Freeman: "In the plain Midwestern language that we both understand. I ask you to put up or shut up! If you have any evidence, bring...
...five-member Senate Investigations subcommittee considered calling Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, South Dakota's Karl E. Mundt and Nebraska's Carl T. Curtis, the only Republican members, issued a joint statement charging that Freeman was trying to "thwart" the hearings. Mundt and Curtis produced signed affidavits from Freeman aides declaring that a special search had been made of the correspondence between the Senators and the department going back to 1953. No such examination was made of the files on the three subcommittee Democrats. Thomas R. Hughes, Freeman's executive assistant, admitted ordering the search, but insisted that...
Died. Francis Higbee Case, 65, wispy, upright Republican U.S. Senator from South Dakota since 1951 (after 14 years in the House), known for his 1946 House labor bill demanding tighter controls on union bargaining, which though vetoed by President Truman, was the precursor of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. A conscientious lawmaker whose major interests were water conservation and development of the Missouri River basin. Case rocked the Senate by rising during a 1956 debate on a natural gas bill to make a speech implying that gas producers had attempted...