Word: dakotas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...better), to any audience, on any occasion. His formal speeches have been clocked at a breathless 250 words per minute-every word clearly and distinctly enunciated. He can drown out any competition merely by raising his rasping voice an octave. (His younger sister Frances remembers him as a South Dakota newsboy: "When he stood out there on Main Street in front of the drugstore, holding an armload of St. Paul Dispatches, you could hear him all over town.") His 8½-hour filibuster with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev left the interpreters reeling; Humphrey has talked about it ever since. Once...
...fight, campaign vigorously, unafraid, defend the record of his party, [and who can] start out with the props whirling, full steam ahead . . . and even prepare for some turbulent weather." But first there was the matter of getting the Democratic nomination: he would enter the primaries in Wisconsin and South Dakota (where he has his best chance of beating Jack Kennedy), in Oregon (where Favorite Son Wayne Morse will muddy the results anyway), and in the District of Columbia. His fondest dream is to pick up 150 to 200 delegates (needed to win: 761), and then hope against hope...
...years. A victim of the Depression (he was forced to quit college for six years when his family's fortunes hit rock bottom, finally worked his way through school as a part-time janitor and drugstore clerk), and a witness of the dust storms that scourged South Dakota in the 1930s, Humphrey became an ardent advocate of Franklin Roosevelt. Phi Beta Kappa Humphrey wrote his master's thesis at Louisiana State University on The Philosophy of the New Deal...