Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Persuader. In St. Paul, a proposed bill to outlaw air rifles met violent opposition from one Minnesota farmer who wanted to know how, if the bill were passed, he could get his bull into the barn...
...ranking Republican members, Franklin Roosevelt did not pick, as he might have, the ranking minority member of the Foreign Relations Committee (Hiram Johnson), nor the titular leader of the party (Governor Dewey). He chose Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg and Commander Harold E. Stassen, ex-Governor of Minnesota, flag secretary to famed Admiral "Bull" Halsey...
...HARVARD SERVICE NEWS takes pleasure in announcing the election of Russell K. Headley '46 of the V-12 Unit and St. Paul. Minnesota, as Editor for the spring term. He has shared co-editorship since August 4, 1944 with Dana Fernald '46 of the Naval ROTC and Larchmont, New York, who will take leave of the University next week upon receiving his diploma and commission...
William J. Gallagher, 69, freshman New Deal Congressman from Minnesota, onetime Minneapolis street sweeper, warned Washington newsmen to stop snickering at his unstatesmanlike past. Fumed Representative Gallagher: "I am not ashamed of having worked. . . . One young man . . . wrote a story about me being stoop-shouldered and having gnarled hands. Well, I'll bet I can lick hell...
...west as Minnesota and Kansas, grain-elevator operators felt the pinch for cars. In Nebraska farmers cried that 100 million bu. of corn (one-third of Nebraska's bumper corn harvest last year) would spoil unless they got cars to move the grain to storage elevators...