Word: minn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announcing the order, Chairman Knutson (R-Minn) of the House Ways and Means Committee told reporters that if Congress falls to slash $6,000,000,000 from President Truman's $37,500,000,000 budget, "it will kill any idea of a 20 percent (income...
Died. Andrew J. Volstead, 87, tobacco-chewing, publicity-shy country lawyer who co-authored (with the late Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas) and gave his name to the National Prohibition Enforcement Act, which implemented the 18th Amendment; in Granite Falls, Minn...
...UNRRA's Fiorello LaGuardia in Fargo, N.Dak., before noon the next day. After badgering two airlines into getting him there, sleepless, by 5:30 a.m., he was on hand to meet LaGuardia at the airport, rescue his hat from the prairie wind, and go with him to Climax, Minn. Bell managed to catch a few hours' sleep in the sample room of a local hotel...
Another 36,578 school kids in St. Paul, Minn., had it easier than the Denver stay-at-homes; they didn't even have to listen to the radio. About 1,000 organized schoolteachers (A.F.L.) had walked out in the largest teachers' strike in U.S. history. Among their demands: a boost in salary minimums from...
There were also tragedies. The Hokah (Minn.) Chief reported: "The body of Wencil Beranek, 65, was found in a creek three and a half miles east of Waldorf. It was on its back and eyeglasses were still in place. Two pennies were found in a pocket." And the Jasper County (Ind.) Democrat recorded: "Irene, 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Neeley, passed away at the Riley Hospital. She had been a patient for the past four years suffering with a heart ailment...