Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admit It." Any one of those measures would run into varying Republican opposition. The reaction of Republican Congressmen to the special session call was mixed. Only a few hours before the call, Minnesota's Harold Knutson, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, had declared that Congress would limit aid to Europe even under the Marshall Plan to $1 billion next year. Contemplated in the Marshall Plan: some $6 to $7 billion the first year. Said Knutson: "Give them a paddle and then tell 'em-'Go paddle your own canoe...
...Republican campaign for an income-tax cut, noisily led by Minnesota's Harold Knutson (who insisted that taxes should be the No. 1 business at the special session), got unexpected support last week from a distinguished scholar. Speaking in Boston, Harvard's President James B. Conant reminded the U.S. people that taxes are a powerful tool in shaping the U.S. social and political structure...
...season's opener, Michigan State went down, 55-0. Then Michigan rolled over Stanford-(49-13), Pittsburgh (69-0) and Northwestern (49-21). Last week came the traditional grudge match: the Little Brown Jug game with Minnesota...
...visibly blanched in the face of a loaded question asking whether he objected "in principle" to the idea of a military man in the White House. "It depends on the man's character," he ventured, "and on who he is." On General Dwight D. Eisenhower and on former Minnesota governor Harold E. Stassen, Taft kept a tight-lipped "no comment...
Senator Taft, who will be faced by both friends and foes at the Faculty's noon repast, has set political dopesters astir in recent weeks by his repeated appearances on the same platform with Harold E. Stassen, only avowed Republican presidential candidate and former Governor of Minnesota...