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Bill Langer's choice to beat Nye is Usher Lloyd Burdick, 65, for the last ten years a plodding, mild-mannered U.S. Representative whose hobby is collecting and rebinding old volumes of Wild West Americana. Usher Burdick is a pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist who changed his mind. A colorless radio speaker, lacking the verve and rabble-rousing fire of either Opponent Nye or Boss Langer, Candidate Burdick goes poorly in the cities. He is a great success with small groups of farmers when he rips off his coat and speaks in unvarnished and unrehearsed language. But some of Burdick...
Political reporters who watched Candidate Burdick stumping the rural districts, whipping off his coat under the expert Langer management, bluntly predicted that Nye was through. But Washington observers-especially those who watched Gerald Nye's shrewd progress from a young bumpkin in bulbous yellow shoes to a sleekly tailored politician who drew down handsome lecture fees for anti-British, anti-Russian tirades-still believed strongly in the Nye talent for self-preservation...
...Russell Burdick Wade, fireman, third class, Houston...
...provided for Government purchase of the white-owned animals (estimated at 200,000), appropriated enough money to buy them up at $3 to $8 a head to be given to the little brown men. The census and buying job was turned over to big, beaming, bespectacled Charles Gilbert Burdick, a Forest Service inspector in Juneau. Last December Burdick, an assistant and a pilot started out in an airplane, equipped with skis for landing, covered 20,000 miles. The Lomen brothers, who had found the reindeer industry no gold mine, were glad to sell out. On the few others who refused...
Last week Charles Burdick had finished his job, was flying home to report to his boss, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes. And the Eskimo population around Nome was working hard to fill an order for 800 reindeer skinparkas (at $30 apiece) for the U. S. Army...