Word: dak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...project was denied by company officials; negotiations would be continued, they said. But the Parliament of the Kingdom of Iceland (whose king is big King Christian X of Denmark) did not refuse to grant a 75-year franchise to Transamerican when Judge Gudmunder Crimson of Rugby, N. Dak., who in 1930 represented his State at the millennial of the founding of the Icelandic parliament, intervened. Judge Grimson went to Copenhagen to plead with the King of Denmark and of Iceland...
...Texans who had not seen each other for 34 years met last week in the aisle of a Pullman at Fargo, N. Dak. "Hello, Bill," said Farmer George Thomas Murray of Berthold. "Hello, George," said his brother, Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma. Vith true Texan restraint, the reunited kinsmen briskly shook hands and sat down to talk politics...
Nine years ago William Michael Petrolle was nicknamed "The Fargo Express" because, until he became a prizefighter after taking a correspondence course in a school for boxers managed by onetime Heavyweight Tom Gibbons, he had worked for the Northern Pacific Railroad at Fargo, N. Dak. In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, where two years ago he won the most spectacular fight of his career against Jimmy McClarnin, ugly little Petrolle last week sat wrapped in his lucky Indian robe, scowling across the ring at a promising welterweight called Eddie Ran. Ran, knocked down three times in the first round...
Second prize was given to Edwin A. Halsey, secretary of the Senate's Democratic minority, for "Vote Democratic and eat regularly." A. H. Kessler of Hague, S. Dak. carried off a $10 third prize with: "If we want a change for the better, we'd better make a change...
...Liabilities New England 2 $ 2,745,000 Middle Atlantic 68 151,210,246 South Atlantic 86 66,970,492 South Central 97 43,549,499 Central East (Ohio, 213 Ind, Ill., Mich., Wis.) 213 296,453,467 Central West (Minn., Iowa, Mo., N. Dak., S. Dak., Neb. and Kans.) 505 92,653,686 Western 25 13,636,409 Pacific...