Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Business Career: Started as a lumberjack with the Black River Lumber Co. in south Vermont, advanced to logging foreman, moved up to company treasurer in 1921. As treasurer, he trimmed the budget so effectively that he was grabbed off by the parent company, the Parker-Young Co. of Lincoln. N.H.; rose to be general manager...
...Vermont: Lee E. Emerson* Washington: Arthur B. Langlie...
Agriculture. Vermont's gentle, able George D. Aiken, one of the best G.O.P. farm legislators, a friend of the farmer but no foe of the consumer...
...expected: Maine's Governor Frederick G. Payne had been promoted to the Senate in the State's September election. California's Senator William F. Knowland was the nominee of both parties. Nebraska's Senator Hugh Butler and ex-Governor Dwight Griswold were easy winners. Vermont's Ralph Flanders, North Dakota's William Langer, Minnesota's Edward Thye and New York's Irving Ives had no trouble. In Ohio, mellifluous John Bricker easily defeated wisecracking Mike DiSalle, former U.S. price boss...
...Republicans re-elected their incumbent governors in twelve states: Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin. They also won in Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska and New Hampshire...