Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occasion was a trip to St. Paul for the 100th anniversary of Minnesota as a territory. Truman ordered the presidential train hitched up, happily climbed aboard his private car, the Ferdinand Magellan. He would make a "nonpolitical, bipartisan speech," he declared with a grin. What was that? Said Truman genially: "It is a speech that throws no bricks at any other political party." Big Bill Boyle, national Democratic chairman, beamed concurrence. "Sure," said Bill. "I'm along to see that he doesn't do anything political." Both were almost overcome with the humor...
...Thomas Jefferson. By banquet time, the nonpolitical, bipartisan veneer had worn away. Chortling Harry Truman told the diners: "I have to deliver an address of a bipartisan nature that will be entirely satisfactory to the Democrats of Minnesota." The diners roared...
EAST Notre Dame 0 6 9 27--42 North Carolina 6 0 0 0--6 Minnesota 0 14 0 10-24 Pittsburgh 0 0 7 0--7 Army 0 7 7 0--14 Pennsylvania 0 6 0 7--13 Boston College 13 7 0 0--20 Fordham 0 0 0 12--12 Syracuse 14 14 7 12--12 Holy Cross 13 7 0 0--13 Tufts 6 13 7 7--27 Massachusetts 7 0 0 0--7 Middlebury 7 7 0 0--14 Univ. of Vermont 0 6 0 0--6 Cornell 7 0 0 0--17 Dartmouth...
...more than that or Holy Cross to loose by less. In case of a tie, the rackets collected. As it turned out the score was 22-14 and the gamblers missed by just one point. However other upsets such as the Teunessee-North Carolina game and the Purdue-Minnesota game enabled the card issuers to make a handsome profit...
Then the Wolverines tried hitting the line and found it just as easy to gain there. By winning, 14-7, twice-beaten Michigan took some steam out of unbeaten Minnesota's big drive toward the Western Conference championship and the Rose Bowl...