Word: minnesotan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...votes) and flabbergasted: they had assumed that because Harry Truman was backing the candidacy of Fellow-Missourian. Stuart Symington, Harriman would naturally fall in line with his great friend and onetime sponsor Truman. ¶ Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy, co-chairman of the presidential campaign of his fellow Minnesotan, Senator Hubert Humphrey, was asked why he did not scuttle Humphrey and run himself. Grinned McCarthy: "That's not a bad idea. I'm twice as liberal as Humphrey, twice as Catholic as Kennedy and twice as smart as Symington...
...disappointing to see another Minnesotan straining too hard to become President. We went through that with our favorite son, Harold Stassen. If the messages were indeed "secrets" on which hangs our nation's security, then our Senator's action in using them to propel himself into the limelight must be regarded as the most reckless folly...
Black-Market Beat. Minnesotan Russ Jones, 38, arrived in Budapest six days before Soviet troops and tanks roared in to crush the rebellion, decided to stay on when some 150 Western correspondents pulled out of Budapest. Other Western press representatives who stayed: Associated Press Staffer Endre Marton, a native Hungarian who had recently been released from prison by the Communists; Marlon's wife, U.P. Correspondent Ilona Nyilas (who had also been imprisoned); Reuters Reporter Ronald Farquhar...
...left-of-center U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey, however, labeled it "twelve hits and one strike-out." The strikeout: Johnson's proposal on natural gas. Texan Johnson and Democrats from other gas-producing states want natural gas to flow free of federal price controls, while Democrats of Minnesotan Humphrey's stripe want tight control from Washington to hold prices down. Majority Leader Johnson's point on gas might in 1956 lead to a congressional fight demonstrating that not all Democratic hearts are in the same place. As for the rest of the program, the Democratic congressional majorities...
...does an Eskimo keep himself warm? Arctic Expert Vilhjalmur Stefansson, in Natural History, explains: he fits his jacket tight around his neck and wears nothing but pants underneath. Dressed in clothing that follows this plan, an Eskimo is comfortable at 40° below. A Minnesotan, who wears three times as much clothing, says Stefansson, is rarely happy outdoors at this temperature...