Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...child in North Dakota I used to try to drive the family pigs from one pen to another...
...specimens dug at the monument are reassembled in Carnegie Museum at Pittsburgh and in American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan, the University of Utah and the National Museum, Washington. For a look at terrible lizards in a national park, tourists can go to Fossil Cycad National Monument in South Dakota, where WPA has built a few poor imitations out of concrete...
...operating chief, Sam Insull knew no peer. His network of gas, light, power and transit companies spread over 32 States from North Dakota to Florida to Maine, served some 10,000,000 people, had securities with a market value of over three billion dollars, had combined earning power of a half billion a year. Sam Insull, however, was not content to be known as an operating genius alone. Through an elaborate series of investment trusts and holding companies, he proceeded to acquire stock control of those same utilities which he already controlled through good management. Because others were bidding against...
Through their waving wheat fields, North Dakota Republicans went to the polls last week to decide whether they would renominate (and thus virtually reelect) lean, jut-jawed Senator Gerald Prentice Nye, or send to Washington hulking, jut-jawed Governor William Langer instead. Senator Nye, once a "radical," now a learned apostle of Neutrality, has for twelve years been at the top of North Dakota's political heap. But Governor Langer (whom the Federal Government tried, and failed, to jail in 1934 for openly levying on Relief clients for his campaign funds), called a demagogue by his opponents, a champion...
Governor Benson soon crowed that this was a victory for progressives. But Mr. Christgau, who was in Redwood Falls to dedicate a new WPA-built community house at the Birch Coulee Dakota Indian agency and to receive a tribal distinction as Chief Standing Bear, last week began to broadcast a different account by telephone and telegraph. He announced that the real reason for the ouster was not his "meddling in politics," as Governor Benson and Senator Ernest Lundeen had charged, but his refusal to be "kicked upstairs" to a job in Washington, which Administrator Hopkins had offered him fortnight before...