Word: montana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Montana range, rattlesnakes were unusually plentiful, and the old men predicted a long warm fall and a short easy winter...
...first scheduled caller was Representative Mike Mansfield of Montana, a Congressional authority on Asiatic affairs. Afterward, Mansfield felt free to say publicly that the U.S. should not and could not guarantee to leave intact "the prerogatives of His Majesty as a sovereign ruler...
...last week Roy Barton White, president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., was surprised to read in the newspapers that he, his railroad and four officials of the B. & 0. were in trouble with the Government. Montana's Senator Burton K. Wheeler, chairman of the powerful Interstate Commerce Committee, had sent a sizzling letter about the B. & O.'s finances to OWMR Boss John W. Snyder, who is still filling the job of Federal Loan Administrator...
What anger and bitterness remained was spent by Montana's Burton K. Wheeler in a quarrelsome, three-hour speech about the peace. He grudgingly announced his intention to vote for the Charter, but he argued against most of its major premises. The "real fight," he promised, would come when legislation to implement U.S. participation reaches the Senate-perhaps not for more than a year. Then there would be a lot to say about Article 43 (which binds the U.S. and other participants to make armed forces available to fight aggression...
...Taft, Montana's Burt Wheeler, Illinois' "Curly" Brooks and Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry almost succeeded in delaying Senate action until mid-November. They were joined, surprisingly, by Minnesota's Republican Joseph Hurst Ball. The vote against delaying (52 to 31) was too close for Administration comfort. It found B2H2 (Ball, Burton, Hatch, Hill) split for the first time on an international issue, with Ohio's Harold Burton in Senator Ball's corner...