Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FRED MARSHALL, 42, a lean, hard-muscled farmer, uprooted Minnesota's stubborn Harold Knutson, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, whose 32 years in Congress had lulled him into thinking he could never be beaten. Marshall, who had been Minnesota's Farm Security administrator for six years, picked up Harry Truman's line, argued that Knutson's 1948 tax-cut bill was "a rebate to the rich...
Tall, strikingly handsome and always immaculately dressed, Professor Tiselius speaks 'English with about the same accent as a Minnesota Swede. Students at Uppsala affectionately call him "the film star professor." His official hobbies are sailing, modern art, music, literature. His unofficial hobby: making model aircraft with Per, his 14-year...
...over the U.S.: Harvard's Schwinger, California's Serber, CalTech's Christy, Stanford's Schiff, Columbia's Lamb, Iowa State's Carlson, Illinois' Nordsieck, Washington's Uehling. (Brother Frank, the original Oppie apprentice, is now a physicist at the University of Minnesota.) Says Nobel Prizewinner Robert Millikan: "Oppenheimer developed at Berkeley an outstanding school of theoretical physics, and its products are leaders of modern physics today...
...journalist and educator expressed optimism over the fact that 49 newly-elected Congressmen have supported the strengthening of the United Nations into a more powerful body. Among these he mentioned Johnson of Texas, Humphreys of Minnesota, Douglas of Illinois, and Miller of Idaho...
Besides these three coups, Democrats won all the races that were figured as "close." In Minnesota, Hubert Humphrey walloped Senator Joe Ball; Conservative Democrats Virgil Chapman and Guy Gillette defeated GOP incumbents in Kentucky and Iowa, respectively; and Robert Kerr easily out-distanced Ross Rizley in Oklahoma...