Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Arthur Stassen, 49, director of the petroleum division of the Minnesota state tax department, who left his job as a milkman to take a position in the state government when his 31-year-old brother Harold Stassen, sometime Pullman conductor, became Governor in 1939; of a heart attack; in St. Paul...
Mike Sheridan is the other veteran defenseman, and Lentz will probably start Dave Grannis from Minnesota to round out the position and give the team added size which is crucial for blocking...
...Phyllis Hurwitz, 17, creamed the University of Southern California (three males, one female) 195 to 65. By winning its second straight victory (fortnight ago the girls beat Notre Dame 230 to 110), Barnard nailed a spot on the next program, on April 12 (v. the University of Minnesota), will stay on until defeated. The only cash prizes: $1,500 for the Barnard scholarship fund, $500 for Loser U.S.C.-both from Sponsor General Electric. Participants get no money at all. No cash...
...Train Robbery (1903), was a western that introduced to the public a man who soon became the first of the great horse-opera heroes: Broncho Billy Anderson, a studio janitor who was drafted as a masked bandit. Hard on Broncho Billy's tracks came William S. Hart, a Minnesota farm boy who grew up among Indians. He rode a beautiful paint horse named Fritz, and when they stood side by side, it was hard to tell them apart. After Hart came Tom Mix, "the fearless man of the plains," who looked like a mail-order cowboy...
...early as 1954, the Antitrust Division began quietly bringing a series of apparently unrelated but actually closely dovetailed labor cases. They were intended to lay the groundwork for its campaign against labor unions which it feels have trampled on the Sherman Act, e.g., the Minnesota Milk Drivers Union enjoined from forcing stores to jack up the prices of milk so the drivers could collect larger commissions...