Word: bismarcks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That afternoon Lydia Langer was at the Langer summer home at Spiritwood Lakes near Jamestown. At the committee's call she rushed back to Bismarck in a day coach, was met by a delegation at the station...
...Bismarck...
With two Governors dangling on strings against a backdrop of the State's new $2,000,000 skyscraping Capitol at Bismarck, North Dakota last week treated the nation to an extraordinary political puppet show. Lieut.-Governor Ole Olson, in shirtsleeves held up by blue garters, sat in the Governor's chair, issued proclamations, ruled the State. But to thousands and thousands of sunburned, wind-bitten North Dakota farmers, William Langer was still their rightful Governor...
...Olson, who moved into the Governor's office, revoked martial law, cancelled the call for the special Legislative session. But a pack of Legislators went to Bismarck anyway. Because "Bill" Langer is a hugely popular politician, because he was renominated for the Governorship after his Federal conviction, because North Dakota farmers believe he is defending them against the ogre of Big Business, his partisans decided to hold the special session, regardless of Ole Olson. The House, topheavy with Langermen, quickly met and organized, but the Senate was stalled by the lack of quorum. William Langer appeared before the House...
Five hundred farmers, who had trekked in to Bismarck to lend Langer moral and, if necessary, physical support, climbed the hill to the Capitol to hear Acting Governor Olson, in shirt sleeves and blue Barters, declare: "Little did I dream 40 years ago when, as a farm boy, I came here from Wisconsin and with my first yoke of oxen broke up this prairie, that such a day as this would come. . . . For 38 years I paid my taxes on time, then, three years ago, I couldn't meet my taxes. A man's first duty...