Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Evanston, ΙΙΙ., Michigan, the nation's top rated team, with hardly a huff or puff, blew Northwestern down, 49-21. ¶At South Bend, Notre Dame, with Star Johnny Lujack under wraps for most of the game, trounced Nebraska, 31-0. Illinois met Minnesota at Champaign, ΙΙΙ., in the week's only big game between unbeaten teams, and Minnesota lost, 40-13. The South's three best unbeaten teams, Texas, Southern Methodist and Georgia Tech, had no trouble keeping their escutcheons unsmudged...
...congenial Republican atmosphere of the Iowa Bankers' Association convention at Des Moines, Bob Taft* and Harold Stassen were as chummy as classmates at a college reunion. They had breakfast together. They appeared together for lunch at a Republican rally and were greeted by an orchestral medley of Minnesota, Hats Off to Thee and Beautiful Ohio. Then both spoke from the same dais. Said Taft, warmly: "Governor Stassen and I have differed on many issues . . . but we are prepared to compromise our individual views to ... maintain the solidarity of the party." Replied Harold Stassen: "I have a deep respect...
When they heard about Rocky's war record last week, Illinois, Minnesota and Pennsylvania banned him from their rings. The National Boxing Association had not yet taken action, but declared itself in favor of "rejecting any participant in boxing who has not fulfilled his trust to his country." Rocky would have a tough time finding a place to defend his crown...
...these jubilant words a Minnesota farmer greeted the news early last week that the price of September corn had reached $2.65½ a bu. on Chicago's Board of Trade, a new alltime high. Wheat at $2.80 was also close to a record price. But what he forgot was that prices bid up by speculators must come down-when the speculators get frightened...
There was little time for frivolity, anyway. The girls put in five grueling days of promenading on the boardwalk, posing for pictures, smiling their patented smiles and strutting before a board of eleven judges. The field was gradually narrowed down to five contestants-the Misses California, Canada, Minnesota, Alabama, and Memphis...