Word: montana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know all of this by experience, as in the early years of the century, I traveled hundreds of miles by stagecoach in Montana and Wyoming...
...that brief encounter in Tunisia. Ace Toni did not know the American's name but had passed along a photo to Alfons. Alfons, in turn, passed it along to West German military author ities and it ultimately wound up in Stars and Stripes and Air Force Times. In Montana, Widen saw the picture, read of the search that Alfons had begun three years ago and guessed that he was the man. His legacy: Toni Hafner's German Gold Cross, his wings, and a portrait of the ace painted by Alfons...
...Congress the tide of Catholic pressure was rising fast. Without a word to the President, influential House Majority Leader John McCormack, a Massachusetts Roman Catholic known in Congressional cloakrooms as "Archbishop," came out for parochial school loans. (Montana's Mike Mansfield, Senate Majority Leader and also a Catholic, carefully stayed neutral, told newsmen with a worried smile: "I'm just waiting for the Bells of St. Mary's to peal.") The 99 Catholic Congressmen (twelve in the Senate, 87 in the House), as well as Protestants from heavily Catholic districts, eyed a growing pile of mail...
Checks from Montana. In the atmosphere of sharp contrast there is a despondency among the unemployed that arises from insecurity, boredom, a sense of failure and futility, rather than from physical hardship. Compared to the unemployed in other days or other countries, Muncie's jobless are pretty well off, cushioned from dire want by unemployment checks and other forms of social generosity...
...appetite-and pocketbook-had grown large. He cast an envious eye on a big bunch of Russells, then housed cozily in a fine old Great Falls, Mont., saloon called The Mint. The people of Montana belatedly tried to raise the money to outbid Carter and keep the artist's work in the state he adopted, but Carter won. He hung his acquisitions in his club, at the newspaper, in the Fort Worth library, the airport terminal. His will stipulated that they should eventually have their own museum...