Word: montana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Getting specific, he said that Republicans would shove out incumbent Democrats in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Maryland, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Washington, Missouri, Wyoming and Montana (which would mean unhorsing such tough, old Democratic mules as Burt Wheeler, Joe O'Mahoney, Dave Walsh...
...pigs, two mules, 37 chickens and 13 human beings with whom he had shared an abandoned boxcar on Teche Bayou and set out, at 12, to fend for himself. He became a lumber grader, a Wells-Fargo messenger, a medicine-show spieler in "Tincup, Miss.", a silo builder in Montana, a potato digger in Idaho, a sheepherder in Colorado, before he again settled down in lumber...
...Senate last week rose Montana's James E. Murray, wealthy, New Dealing chairman of a special Senate Committee on Small Business. In his hand he had a 359-page report on "Economic Concentration and World War II." Its gist: Big Business, fattened on prime war contracts, was now bigger. He underlined this with a bit of demagogy...
...White House went two of Harry Truman's friends of Senate days: Montana's brusque Burt Wheeler and Wyoming's earnest Joe O'Mahoney. Frankly and flatly they told the President that he was asking the party to wreck itself; perhaps it would be better all around if he withdrew the bill. The rail strike was over; the coal strike was close to settlement. Harry Truman was no longer hopping mad; he thought hard about the political implications of his swift decision five days before. He would consider withdrawing the measure, but he gave no promise...
...made public health his life's work, experiments perilous are strictly a part of routine. In 1919 "Spenny" Spencer fought bubonic plague in New Orleans; in 1922 he went to Montana to tackle Rocky Mountain spotted fever, developed a vaccine which won him a gold medal from the American Medical Association, public renown as the hero of Lloyd Douglas' novel, Green Light. Now he is elbow-deep in another (and even more important) experiment: as director of the National Cancer Institute, he heads a staff of 120 seeking the cause-and eventually cure-of cancer...