Word: capitol
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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...
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...
...Senator did not confine himself to the Governor's desk. Bobbing along Capitol corridors on his short legs, he invaded committee rooms, jerked bills from the hands of their authors, rewrote them to suit himself. When the President pro tem of the Senate offended him, Huey Long marched into the well, demanded his resignation...
...most businessmen Senator Thomas' blast at Governor Harrison and his rallying cry to his Congressional colleagues sounded like a significant renewal of the inflationary drive to force the dollar below 59¢?a drive which wiseacres now predict will reach its climax at the Capitol next winter...
...Senator Thomas chose to ignore the fact that Senators and Representatives will not sit regularly again at the Capitol until after the November election when a new Congress will come into being...