Word: neb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Downstream, Sioux City, Iowa and South Sioux City, Neb. were almost isolated by the floods. With only one road out of town still open and water in the streets rising near the second-story mark, South Sioux City all but gave up the fight. Mayor Wilbur Allen urged the entire population (5,557) to evacuate, keeping only the top floors of the high school open as a refugee center...
...MALONE Lincoln, Neb...
PETER RATCLIFFE Lincoln, Neb...
After the funeral of Senate Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry in Pawnee City, Neb., eleven top Republican Senators drove back to Omaha to discuss Wherry's successor. Ten of the Senators* were quickly in agreement: the new leader should be the eleventh man present-New Hampshire's solid Republican, Styles Bridges...
...trained for the Senate as a salesman and small businessman in Pawnee City, Neb. (pop. 1,595). There, "Lightning Ken" Wherry parlayed his family's furniture business into a bigger furniture store, an automobile agency, a law office, a real-estate firm and an undertaking parlor. (Washington reporters, to his intense irritation, later dubbed him "The Merry Mortician.") When he shifted to politics as a protégé of liberal Senator George Norris, Wherry hustled up votes for the Republican state committee with the same zeal and the same methods he had used to open new selling territories...