Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only seven states showed population declines: Arkansas by 5.8%, Oklahoma by 2.7%, Maine by 2.6%, Mississippi by 2.4%, Alabama by 2%, West Virginia by .8% and Vermont...
Unable to travel during much of his life because of wars, Jaeger in recent summers has been going to Europe (in 1952 the classicist visited Greece for the first time); but otherwise he likes to retreat to New Hampshire or Vermont, where he can answer letters that have accumulated over the year and can get his only exercise by walking, very slowly and contemplatively, over the hilly countryside. "Of course the walks are getting shorter now," he notes...
...President learned at West Point. The President knows and will know where his duty lies." To Ev Dirksen, Ike's duty clearly lies at the head of the ticket on which Dirksen will be running for reelection. But the vast majority of Republican leaders seemed to agree with Vermont National Committeeman Edward Janeway, who said that "under no circumstances" should Eisenhower run again, and Oregon State Chairman Wendell Wyatt, who said: "We would not want to jeopardize his later years." Having already accepted in their own minds the probability that Ike will not be a candidate, the Republicans were...
...Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey...
...Congressman Justin James Morrill of Vermont rose in the House of Representatives to propose a bill that was destined to add a whole new dimension to U.S. education. The Gover ment, said he, should grant to each state enough land to start at least one college "where the leading object shall be ... to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts." For those who questioned the practicability of such a school, Morrill had a ready answer. Out in Michigan, the first state school to teach agriculture was "in the full tide of successful experiment...