Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fight. But Bob Taft was determined to restore four provisions stricken out in the Senate Labor Committee by a coalition led by Senator Ives. As the debate got under way, Minnesota's Joe Ball offered the first: making it an unfair labor practice, for unions as well as for employers, to coerce or interfere with an employee's selection of a bargaining agent...
Last week a TIME correspondent visited 59-year-old Adolph Barke on his 200-acre farm in southern Minnesota near the Iowa line. Barke raises cattle, pigs and sheep, keeps 350 chickens. Besides pasture land, he expects to have 60 acres in oats, 30 in corn, six in flax (which the Government is subsidizing...
...like being a poet," sighed Adolf Dehn. "You don't make money at it." For 20 years his lithographs of round-bellied priests, frock-coated bankers, mountain landscapes and Midwestern barnyards had been finding their way into museums and the portfolios of connoisseurs. But stocky, Minnesota-born Adolf Dehn wanted a quicker and handsomer welcome from fortune than Ralph Blakelock got (see above...
...back to his crayons and litho stone. Last week the 60 lithographs he had finished in his spare moments were on exhibit at a Manhattan gallery. A good many of them were in his old vein: New Yorkerish jibes at solemn nuns, nightclubbers & dilettantes. But most gallerygoers preferred his Minnesota farmyards and Colorado mountain landscapes. In them, Dehn proved once again that he knows how to give black the coolness and weight of real shadows, and how to make white blaze and sparkle the way light does...
...Newman moved, a tourist disclosed a fine compliment that was paid the Trib by Premier Stalin himself. The week before, at a midnight interview in the Kremlin, Minnesota's Harold Stassen had asked how come the Herald Tribune could not get a man into Moscow. Said Stalin, after a quick check with Molotov: "A part of the American correspondents have an ill mood toward us. But this Herald Tribune case is an accident. It is an outstanding newspaper." (It was an outstanding accident, for the paper had been trying to get a man to Moscow for more than...