Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stringency of California guest statutes is paralleled by 16 other states: Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, Wyoming. With some variations, these all restrict liability to cases of negligence, drunkenness or intent on the host's part. In other states there is no statutory restriction of a driver's liability to his guests. Kentucky's constitution forbids any such statute...
...major football teams in the U. S., Santa Clara and Marquette, as well as Northwestern, last week remained untied and undefeated. But Northwestern's schedule, which included Iowa, North Dakota State, Ohio State, Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin was by far the most exacting. If they do not fall before Notre Dame this week, few authorities will deny Coach Waldorf's men a national championship as clean-cut as the Big Ten title which they polished off last week at Ann Arbor...
...South Dakota, which Franklin Roosevelt carried by a modest margin, other Democratic candidates had a bad time. Governor Tom Berry fell behind Republican Leslie Jensen in his bid for a third term. The State's two Representatives, both Democrats, had neck & neck races, scored one victory, one defeat. Democratic Senator William J. Bulow trailed his opponent. Chandler Gurney, until, two days after election, he found himself safe by a nose...
...North Dakota after 48 hours of ballot-counting, citizens last week found out whom they had elected Governor. It was not Democrat John Moses, nor Republican Governor Walter Welford. It was their old radical fireband, ex-Governor William A. Langer who two years ago was ousted from office by the State Supreme Court after being convicted of permitting the use of relief funds for political purposes, who last year on his third trial of that charge got himself acquitted, who last summer lost in the Republican primaries to Governor Welford who led the more conservative element of the Non-Partisan...
...York, Harlem's fiery little progressive Republican Vito Marcantonio was defeated by a Tammanyman. Making up for the loss of Arizona's Isabella Greenway, retired, Oregon elected another of Eleanor Roosevelt's bridesmaids, Nanny Wood Honeyman, to replace stalwart Republican William Ekwall. In North Dakota, freckled William Lemke, whose Union Party vote for President was piddling, easily topped the field for re-election to his present Republican job as Representative-at-Large...