Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good Man, But . . ." The Dewey and Taft camps denied that they had any "understanding" that they would work together to sidetrack the Stassen bandwagon. But Stassenites thought they had spotted at least a willingness of the two groups to work together. They pointed to Omaha, where Senator Hugh Butler's machine had been expected to deliver strongly for Taft. Instead, when Stassen strength and Taft weakness became evident, it delivered for Dewey. The final Omaha results: Dewey, 12,500; Stassen, 9,000; Taft...
Stassen himself continued his whirlwind campaign. He spent the morning of his 41 st birthday in Omaha, cut a cake given to him by dapper Fred Seaton, his Nebraska manager, then hurried home to listen to the returns. Then he was off to Bob Taft's home state. He was competing with Taft for 23 of Ohio's 53 delegates. If he could take a dozen from Ohio's "favorite son," it would be the end of Taft's chances...
...rolled on to Omaha by bus. He flew to Buffalo Bill's old territory around North Platte, and to the cowtown of Alliance. He hung professionally over the ring of a hog auction, attended a farm picnic of hot dogs and baked beans, spoke from the top of a hotel marquee with his hair flying in the wind...
...favorite study at present seems to be the blood (it used to be the skull). Dr. Victor E. Levine of Creighton University, Omaha, used blood tests to determine where Eskimos came from. In blood groups, he said, Eskimos are practically identical with American Indians. Therefore they are not descendants of Europe's ice-age population (as one theory maintains), or recent immigrants from Siberia. They are probably Indians who moved north and developed their peculiar culture. This theory, said Dr. Levine, is supported by the fact that ancient Eskimo-like relics have been reported as far south as Manhattan...
...Indiana's big steel center at Gary, he launched into a heated defense of the Taft-Hartley Act. Before a group of Omaha farmers and cattlemen, he stated firmly that farm support prices were too high...