Word: bismarck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McCarney hitchhiked from Churdan, Iowa, to Bismarck in 1932 with 50? in his pocket and stayed to make his fortune selling cars, but the referendum is his game and he has been playing it with skill and delight since 1963. He failed that year to persuade the Republican state legislature not to increase income taxes. Then he discovered a swift way to block the legislation: gather 7,000 signatures and put the issue on the ballot. He collected the petitions, had his referendum, and nixed the tax increase by a margin...
...could on the Carter Administration. Governor Arthur Link even succeeded in persuading Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus, an old friend, to come. North Dakota's three-man congressional delegation was there, as were most state officials and nearly the entire state legislature, which made the 100-mile trip from Bismarck to attend. Backing the project, State Representative Michael Unhjem bitterly asked: "I wonder if Georgia ever had a drought during...
Staffers have also had help in tracing their family trees. An uncle of the London bureau's Christopher Byron spent 20 years researching the family, which includes the poet Lord Byron and Ralph de Burun, an aide to William the Conqueror. Senior Editor Otto Friedrich claims Bismarck's Foreign Minister, Bernhard von Billow, as a forebear as well as the French Dukes of Guise. Senior Editor John Elson notes that an ancestor of his grew the first pineapple in England, from a seedling brought back from the South Seas by Captain Cook...
...weekend in Cambridge. After all they even argue about whether the term "jazz" was derived from the Creole Chasse-beau or a sexual association, derived from jasm--so you won't be trailblazing, merely patience-breaking, if you try to discover pure jazz. Like Disraeli's put-down of Bismarck's revelling in the label "honest broker," ("There is no honest broker") the phrase is a contradiction in terms...
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