Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also had the flu last week. In Texas, Minnesota, Virginia and South Carolina, thousands were down with it. In North Chicago and Waukegan alone, 2,600 people were sick...
...rackety, poor man's railroad long before it slipped into receivership in 1923. Begun in the '70s by Minneapolitans eager to challenge Chicago's monopoly of Midwestern railroading, the line stretched itself into 1,690 miles of jerkwater track running north & south across Minnesota and Iowa, with branches to Peoria and Leola, S. Dak. It never got to St. Louis-and from the day its first track was laid, it was more often in than out of the courts. Its debt was too high, its farm traffic too meager and too seasonal. In the Midwest its sway...
Sumner Welles's view on foreign policy (TIME, Oct. 25) sounds more realistic and more in keeping with our ideals than any other plan proposed so far. If someone with experience in domestic administration like ex-Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota would promise to appoint him Secretary of State, they might well win the 1944 election and give us a top-notch government...
...final vote: 85 yes, 5 no, with 6 absent. (If all had been present, the final vote would have been 90-to-6.) Against the Resolution: the Midwest's triumvirate of old-style isolationists, Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, North Dakota's William Langer, Wisconsin's Robert La Follette, North Carolina's Reynolds, Montana's Wheeler (who had supported the League until 1923); and Hiram Johnson...
...Ball, Burton, Hatch, Hill, of Minnesota, Ohio, New Mexico, Alabama, respectively...