Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey, returned to New York's governor's chair with the biggest majority any New York gubernatorial candidate had ever rolled up (680,000).-As before, there were others breathing down his neck: Ohio's Bricker and Taft, California's Warren, Michigan's Vandenberg, Minnesota's Stassen, Massachusetts' Lodge. As for the Democrats-now Harry Truman's troubles would be the same as those which confronted Hoover after...
Labor looked at the new Congress and shuddered. Would its old foes now translate the Republican sweep as a mandate for restriction of unions? One answer came in a hurry. Minnesota's Senator Joe Ball said he would introduce a bill to outlaw the closed shop, which he called "the most illiberal thing in our industrial picture." He and many other Republicans were on record for revision of the Wagner Act, to equalize employers' rights with union rights...
That Man Again. In Minneapolis, University of Minnesota students, sick of the G.I. gag "Kilroy was here," staged a mock burial, inscribed on the tombstone: "Kilroy is here." In Caldwell, N.J., National Bank officials put up a neon sign over the entrance to the safe-deposit vault. The sign: "Kilroy was here...
...lesser sports survive because 50,000 partisans watch the classic tussle with Toothpaste Tech and pay well for the privilege; fresh-water deans rarely overlook the essential value of such a "well-rounded athletic program." Everyone waves the banner except the stalwarts themselves, who are too busy nudging Minnesota tackles, or dodging the flying tackles and clips of the rival eleven. In great parts of the country, these players are paid well for their efforts, while Athletic Secretaries and Alumni apologists wring tears from eyes, just a mite skeptical over a goldmine on the gridiron...
Professor Black has been on the faculty here since 1927. Before that, he taught at the Universities of Minnesota and Wisconsin...