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...days before Pearl Harbor, South Dakota's throaty, balding Republican Representative Karl E. Mundt, president of the National Forensic League, made many an oration on behalf of U.S. isolation. Once he urged that Franklin Roosevelt undertake to mediate the war in Europe; once he demanded that Franklin Roosevelt resign...
...Continent began as a pip-squeak Minnesota-Dakota mail carrier, got nowhere until 1936 when rich Thomas Fortune Ryan III bought a big block of the common stock. Ambitious Tom Ryan started romping all over the place, wound up with 6,700 flight miles from Minneapolis (Northwest's home plate) to Huron, S.C., to Tulsa and to St. Louis. Then he applied for routes to New Orleans, other points...
...Dakota's Senator Gerald P. Nye: part of his house was flooded twice. Reported Mrs. Nye: "The Senator was pretty angry...
Recovery. Only a little less remarkable has been the growth of the surface U.S. Navy in the year since Pearl Harbor. Besides the North Carolina and the Washington, commissioned in 1941, probably four new battleships, the South Dakota, Indiana, Massachusetts and Alabama, have joined the fleet by this time. The "biggest-ever" (45,000 tons), 30-knot Iowa was launched, in August, her sister ship New Jersey this week. These big, new, cruiser-fast battleships differ from the old Pearl Harbor ships as a Flying Fortress differs from a B18. Other signs of naval recovery...
...excited Navy Secretary Frank Knox, all that Franklin Roosevelt could utter was an astonished "No!" In their living rooms, on the golf courses, driving in their cars, tens of thousands of profane Americans said: "Why, the yellow bastards!" Said the Hon. Gerald Prentice Nye, senior U.S. Senator from North Dakota, about to address an America First rally in Pittsburgh: "It sounds terribly fishy...