Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three weeks. German prisoners complained: "Don't you Americans ever sleep?" In September, alongside the 36th (a National Guard division from Texas), the 45th landed at Salerno to begin one of the war's most grueling campaigns. Another National Guard division, the 34th (from Iowa and Minnesota), helped hold that beachhead...
...Republican committee members, wistfully talking of high-tariff prosperity and solidly opposed to further reductions, Henry Wallace looked like a symbol of their discontent. They quizzed him about everything from killing pigs to full em ployment. To Minnesota's finance-minded Harold Knutson he looked like the fattest target he had seen in months...
Without specifically recalling the famed fights over the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, the President added that, in his opinion, this was no longer a question which should divide Democrats and Republicans. But he promptly heard from two Republicans. Minnesota's Representative Harold Knutson declared that the President's proposal would close many a U.S. factory. Michigan's Roy O. Woodruff called for defeat of the entire reciprocal trade program. Congress set itself for long debate...
...opening blast of Minnesota's Harold Knutson, ranking Republican of the Ways & Means Committee, suggested that there would be no glad surprises for those who hope for freer world trade. Said he, in an echo of the palmy days of isolationism: "This [tariff reduction] would be tantamount to signing a death warrant for hundreds of businesses and throwing tens of thousands of workers out of employment. Republicans in the House will fight it to the last ditch...
...Forty-six-year-old progressive John J. Sherman of the Minneapolis Star-Journal sent the Cincinnati show a swirling, semi-abstract Minnesota Landscape by Minneapolis Modernist Mac Le Sueur...