Word: minnesota
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...signal of trouble ahead? And if it was. how should it be treated? Many businessmen and economists felt that there was a need for immediate action-and the most obvious medication was a quick tax cut. On this point, some conservative businessmen found themselves in rare agreement with Minnesota's liberal Senator Hubert Humphrey, who demanded an immediate $5 billion slash in taxes. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon opposed any such remedy on the theory that it would interfere with the broad tax-reform program that the Administration has promised for later. Testifying before Virginian Harry Byrd's Senate...
Like Bundy, Franklin Ford is a longtime Harvard man who did not go to Harvard. He got his B.A. from the University of Minnesota, where his uncle, Guy Stanton Ford, was once president. After wartime service in the OSS, Ford went to Harvard for graduate work. Except for a year of teaching at Bennington and three years on research fellowships (including the past year at The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford), he has been there ever since. In one relevant respect Ford is different from Bundy and two or three dozen other former Harvard facultymen...
...This polecat . . . this vile, corrupt creature . . . this damnable skunk . . ." In these pungent terms, recalling a bygone style of political vituperation, Minnesota's Republican Representative H. Carl Andersen, last week on the House floor, attacked Washington Columnist Drew Pearson, who had written about Andersen's involvement in the Billie Sol Estes scandal (TIME cover, May 25). Andersen, senior Republican on the House subcommittee on agricultural appropriations, is so far the only Republican in Congress to be seriously tarnished by the Estes case: he took $4,000 from Estes for stock in a coal mine owned by the Andersen family...
Born December 26, 1920, he doctorate from Harvard in 1950 teaching at Bennington College. His earlier degrees include an A.B. from the University of Minnesota (1942) and a Harvard M.A. in 1948. In the year coming to Harvard he studied in on a Fulbright Research Fellowship...
...overhaul." Shortly afterward, one of the officials who had attended the White House meeting got back to his office and found a wire-service report on Hodges' statement. Said he derisively: "Guess what I've just picked off the wires?" Near week's end, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey vociferously joined Hodges out on the tax-cut limb...