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Three other Republican members of the subcommittee, Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois, Charles E. Potter of Michigan, and Karl E. Mundt of South Dakota, have been subpoenaed also to appear at the trial...
...South Dakota, various conferences have discussed such problems as teaching religion, raising more money-e.g., by the reclassification of property for tax purposes and the consolidation of school districts-and easing the teacher shortage-e.g., by encouraging more future teachers' clubs. The conferences produced figures to show that the state needs $20 million to make up for its shortage of classrooms, and that it will need $22 million more to take care of swelling enrollments by 1960. Just as significant, however, was a special study of high-school courses. In the past two years, the study revealed...
Howrey's place as a Commission member will be taken by Norwegian-born Sigurd Anderson, 51, who stepped out after two terms as South Dakota governor last January. Next month there will be another new face on the FTC: Democrat William C. Kern, 52-year-old Indianapolis lawyer and son of the late Senator John W. Kern, Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1908). Kern, now assistant director of FTC's Bureau of Litigation, will succeed 69-year-old Commissioner James Mead, former New York Senator, whose six-year term is expiring...
...twelve-man touring delegation of Russian farmers (TIME, Aug.11), led by Acting Agriculture Minister Vladimir Matskevich, reached the farmlands of Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota and Texas last week. Their repeated verdict on U.S. marvels: "It is interesting, but we have something like it in Russia." Matskevich neatly demonstrated, however, that he could gather in a few U.S. idioms. "They ought to sell this air by the pound in New York," he remarked brightly to the farmers of Nebraska. And in Texas he added: "Texans don't brag nearly as much as they could...
...independent Hollywood producer spotted a hot property in a politician's life story, bought rights to make a screen biography of South Dakota's modest, cigar-puffing Republican Governor Joe Foss, 40. The script will need no embroidery. As ringmaster of "Joe's Flying Circus" on Guadalcanal in World War II. Marine Air Force Captain Foss led a hell-for-baling-wire fighter squadron, became a top U.S. ace by downing 26 Japanese planes, for his hazards later was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor. Added touch for Hollywood scenarists : Foss's yen to fly began...