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...Washington, Secretary Morgenthau's Congressman, lank Hamilton Fish, lamented the sale, presumed that his constituent was selling because of the serious corn shortage in the East. In the Senate North Dakota's William Langer cried "If all dairy farmers follow Morgenthau's example there will not be any more milk." But in their barns, tired, aging U.S. dairymen dourly agreed that the Morgenthau sale was shrewdly timed.* They, too, are selling milk cows. Their reasons...
...first time since Pearl Harbor, North Dakota's die-hard isolationist Senator Gerald P. Nye, who mortally hates and fears the British Empire, got himself some real headlines. Last week Gerald Nye told the press: the Senate, probably by Nov. 1, will launch a thoroughgoing investigation of all U.S. Lend-Lease expenditures. The investigating Senators (including Nye, Maryland's Millard E. Tydings and Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar) will look suspiciously into all U.S. funds spent abroad. Nye, longtime enemy of Lend-Lease, explained: "We don't know enough about what this country is doing abroad...
...President Franklin Roosevelt suddenly seized parts of Maine, Vermont, North Dakota, California and Texas and sent Federal officers to take control from the states' Governors, that would be roughly equivalent to what happened in Brazil last week. "In the interests of national defense" (and possibly for other reasons), Brazil's President Getulio Vargas seized direct control of some 200,000 sq. mi. along the country's borders...
...Service Cross for capturing a German machine gun singlehanded in World War I. In the 1920s he was one of the Army's top airship pilots. Nine years ago he and Captain Albert W. Stevens took an Army-National Geographic Society balloon to 60,613 ft. over South Dakota before the bag ripped and they had to leave their airtight gondola (roared Bill Kepner into his radio mike: "This damned thing has gone nuts!") Not until the gondola had plummeted to 500 ft. did he jump. It was his last big experience with ballooning. Already an airplane pilot...
...philanthropist. Which brings us around to the story of Carlyle Beasley, founder of Tannenbaum College. Beasley, like Huntington, Crocker, Stanford and Hopkins, made his vast fortune out of the railroad business. He was the owner of the Rappaport and Western Railroad, formerly known as the North Dakota and Western Railroad, which was built by Thomas J. North Dakota...