Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Traveling in South Dakota, President Roosevelt last week received the resignation of Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde as U. S. Minister to Denmark, accepted it "reluctantly." Mrs. Rohde's reasons for quitting: "To take an active part in the campaign for your re-election." Impressed were observers by the fact that the first U. S. woman to be given such a diplomatic post was more sensitive to the political proprieties than most male Ambassadors and Ministers who think nothing of deserting their official jobs to take the stump...
...photograph of parched and cracking soil, a dusty skyline, a steer's skull lying in the foreground. The picture was taken by the RA's able Cameraman Arthur Rothstein and had been widely used by the U. S. Press as a sample of the drought in the Dakotas. Of this "gem among phony pictures," the Fargo Forum declared: "There never was a year that this scene couldn't be produced in North Dakota, even in years when rain- fall levels were far above normal. What we see here is a typical alkali flat, left when melting snow...
Those who turned up to talk Politics were more numerous. They included a Democratic Congressman from Maine, where the election is only three weeks off, a Republican Senator from North Dakota, Dr. Stanley High, who plans to spend $100,000 getting "Good Neighborly" preachers to vote for Roosevelt. Charles Pettijohn of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America dropped by to tell the President that his popularity, as gauged by audience response to newsreels, was once more on the upgrade. New Dealish James Cromwell brought his new wife, the onetime Doris Duke, to a Hyde Park lunch with the Roosevelts...
...General showers greeted the Commission in South Dakota. But Chicago's weather forecaster reported the rain of "little benefit...
This week the rest of the Commission's trip (see map) takes it north to view regions even more desolate than the Southwest's Dust Bowl, the blister that covers parts of the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming. Later they will meet the President in South Dakota, make a preliminary report...