Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank Matthews looked like the solid, conservative type the Senate would confirm without much fuss. Nebraska's two Republican Senators, Kenneth Wherry and Hugh Butler, liked him. A handful of liberal Senators, led by Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, were less happy about the President's choice. They remembered Matthews from 1946, when he sparkplugged a U.S. Chamber of Commerce campaign to paint Communist Red on the Administration and on union labor...
Last week, the University of Minnesota's Dr. Willem Jacob Luyten announced that he had discovered a double star which is only about six light years (35 trillion miles) away from the solar system. It is thus the nearest known star that can be seen regularly in the Northern Hemisphere. (The nearest of all stars, Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri, are 4.3 light years away, but are usually visible only.in the Southern Hemisphere...
...Home. Frankie was the son and namesake of Francis X. Waldron. Around the turn of the century, Waldron Sr. left his home in New Jersey to try his fortunes in the West, tried prospecting in Alaska, drifted back to Seattle and in 1904 married Nora Vieg, daughter of a Minnesota farmer of Norwegian antecedents, at the First Methodist Church. Frankie was born the next year...
...more distant prospect is Ozzie Cowles, father-in-law of Ben McCabe, jayvee football coach. Cowles had a brilliant team at Dartmouth and moved from there to Michigan, where he produced a Big Ten Champion quintet. Now at Minnesota, he had a great season there last year...
...impressive. Harvard was again represented by Professor Leontief, and Talcott Parsons, professor of sociology, made his first trip to the Seminar. In gener- al, however, the teaching staff was more broadly representative of the United States than in the first year. Professor Henry Nash Smith of the University of Minnesota was chosen as Executive Director and lectured at Salzburg on the for tan lectured at Salzburg on the impact of thew West in American Though...