Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After five days Chairman Connally called a halt on the hearings, called for a vote. Result: 21 to 1 for approval (California's Hiram Johnson was the lone dissenter; Minnesota's Henrik Shipstead did not vote...
...Minnesota's Stassen had specific criticisms of the charter's weaknesses, but he insisted that there was room in it for corrections. He also had specific recommendations for making the charter work, for developing "an intelligent, informed, American viewpoint" on major world problems. He urged that the President appoint bipartisan groups to study policy issues...
...editors of the Service News take pleasure in announcing the election of James G. Trager, Jr.'46, of Lowell House and Scarsdale, New York, as Editor. Trager, who previously served as Managing Editor, replaces Russell K. Headley '46, of the V-12 Unit and St. Paul, Minnesota. Other executive appointments will be made in the autumn...
...Americans occupying elective office, the man who knows most about the Far East is almost certainly Congressman Walter H. Judd (Republican) of Minnesota. On March 15, in the House of Representatives, he made the most comprehensive speech yet made on the subject. As the U.S. war effort in the Pacific gains momentum, his speech gains, if anything, in timeliness. Therefore TIME publishes extensive excerpts from...
Although critics loftily wrote that a pianist could not really be gauged by Mozart, audiences liked the big, genial pianist who looked more like a Minnesota farmer than a Paris esthete. The critics eventually capitulated to Casadesus' expert left-handed soloing of Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand Alone...