Word: dakotas
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...South Dakota...
...bill was the Mundt-Nixon bill, introduced by South Dakota's Karl Mundt (who is now up for election as a Senator), and largely written by California's Richard M. Nixon, a lank, earnest Quaker attorney. It had come to the floor of the House from the Un-American Activities Committee...
...Senate listened hardest to South Dakota's Republican Chan Gurney. Sure, he agreed, it was "a stupendous pork barrel . . . but it will put pork chops and bacon and roast pork on millions of dinner tables." The Senators had added more than $101 million to the bill the House had already passed. But they had a good excuse for throwing economy out the window. The bill's whopping total-$640,253,200-was still about $25 million under the Administration's budget estimate. An overwhelming voice vote rolled the barrel to passage...
...Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Nebraska, North Carolina, North & South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia...
Career. A lawyer by profession, he has been appointed to one public office (delegate to the San Francisco conference), elected to two (Dakota County attorney in 1929, re-elected in 1933; governor of Minnesota in 1938, re-elected in 1940 and 1942); never defeated in any election. In 1940, at 33, he was keynoter of the G.O.P. convention in Philadelphia, became Wendell Willkie's floor manager. In 1942 he was commissioned a lieutenant commander in the Navy, was discharged as a captain...