Word: montana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before the House, so that he could not be sued for libel, Democrat Boren charged: "Two men . . . are the chief instigators of 'Swindle, Inc.' The [foremost] is a Wall Street financial agent, one Guy C. Myers, known as 'Flash' Myers to his friends back in Montana before he made a hurried exit from that state. . . . His opposite number among the holding company gang is Howard L. Aller, president of American Power & Light...
Cascade to Tashkent. War or no war, the July 9 eclipse was one of the best observed in history. The moon's shadow, falling on the earth at 6:14 a.m. at Cascade, Idaho, raced at 47 miles a minute across Montana, Canada, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, disappearing after just two hours and 27 minutes at Tashkent, in Turkestan (see diagram). The total eclipse followed a very narrow path (maximum width: 58 miles, in Greenland), but it covered a long stretch of land area. One of the most elaborately equipped expeditions (a Harvard-led group at Bredenbury...
...Senators were Montana's Burton K. Wheeler and New Jersey's Albert W. Hawkes, ex-industrialist and onetime president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In Rome, they had attended a forum with 250 soldiers at a Red Cross club. It was a stormy session...
This gave an inkling of the kind of administration President Truman will conduct. Administration leaders were present, also such Republicans as Senators Vandenberg, Austin and White, House Minority Leader Joe Martin, and such longtime Roosevelt opponents as Montana's Burton Wheeler and Wisconsin's Bob La Follette...
...chairmanned the conference; 2) devised the compromise on the Dumbarton Oaks voting formula; 3) written the section on treatment of liberated countries. Later the assistant President went to Capitol Hill, talked over Yalta with Senators and Representatives of both parties. Among his guests at a Senate lunch: Montana's articulate, isolationist Burton K. Wheeler, who seemed impressed if not satisfied with what he heard...