Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle lines were drawn. Behind Gabrielson were ex-Willkieites Ralph Cake of Oregon and Sinclair Weeks of Massachusetts, hard-shelled ex-Chairmen Carroll Reece and Harrison Spangler, Minnesota's indefatigable Stassenite Mrs. F. Peavey Heffelfinger. Behind Dewey were many Westerners who resented the idea of a Wall Streeter in the chairmanship. Also behind Dewey was old Joe Grundy...
...very unhappy . . ." She accused the press of subjecting her husband to "abuse" and telling "terrible lies" about Rossellini ("It seemed they were just trying to kill him"). But what really decided her on quitting, she added, was what happened to her ten-year-old daughter recently on a Minnesota farm. "Some newspapermen dressed themselves as broom sellers to try to get a statement out of her. That was inhuman...
...Humphrey of Minnesota...
...trudged up to Capitol Hill on the following day displayed none of Robert Oppenheimer's crisp confidence. He knew what was coming. A few days before taking the stand, thin, 36-year-old Frank Oppenheimer resigned his post as assistant professor of physics at the University of Minnesota and his resignation had been promptly accepted. He sat uneasily before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and talked about the mistake he and his wife Jacquinette had made twelve years before...
...Paul; Murray High, St. Paul. Palmquist, Keith Paul Stanley of 3901 South 13 Avenue, Minneapolis; Roosevelt High, Minneapolis. Parsons, Laurence White of 928 Exchange Street, Keokuk, Ia.; Keokuk Senior High, Schellinger, Richard Ralph of 920 6th Avenue, Council Bluffs, Ia.; Abraham Lincoln High, Council Bluffs. Harvard Club of Minnesota Scholarship...