Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Acting Postmaster General for August, September and October will be First Assistant Postmaster General William Washington Howes, a rotund, nervous man who bounces when he walks, smokes cigarets continuously and is South Dakota's No. 1 Democrat. Wisconsin-born, he studied law at the University of South Dakota, landed in Wolsey to begin practice with $40 in his pocket. He spent $5 for a shingle, collected a $5 fee from a cowman client a few moments later. So popular was Bill Howes as a State Senator some 20 years ago that when a daughter was born...
...western North and South Dakota, east ern Montana and Wyoming, it looked as if there would be no crops at all. And the drought was getting steadily worse in Oklahoma, western Arkansas, northern Tennessee, southern Kentucky. The Government, declared the President, was ready to pour out unlimited amounts of WPA, AAA, Resettlement Administration and Surplus Commodities Corporation money to relieve stricken farmers...
...both old Parties. In Chicago, Rev. Gerald L. K. ("Share-the-Wealth") Smith announced on behalf of himself and his new ally, Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend, that they had reached "a loose working agreement" with the inflationist leaders, Detroit's Father Charles E. Coughlin and North Dakota's Representative William Lemke. To his new Manhattan headquarters went Father Coughlin to prepare for a radioration at week's end on "Why I Can Support Neither the New Deal nor the Old Deal." Questioned about a third party, the political priest explained that canon law forbade...
...stubble on his chin, and who has been connected with almost every farm organization in the Northwest, William Lemke thinks and speaks with a well-trained mind. Even colleagues who question his judgment concede his ability and conscientiousness. Well-versed in insurgent politics by his long career in North Dakota's Non-Partisan League as it wrested control of the state Republican machine from Old Guardsmen, Candidate Lemke replied last week when asked how he was going to finance his new party: "I am not concerned about finances. Money is considered important only when deals are to be made...
...Robert R. Livingston put the treaty through; the next Congress appropriated the money; nobody carried the case to the Supreme Court; and, as a result, Louisiana and Arkansas and Missouri and Iowa and Minnesota and Kansas and Montana and North Dakota and South Dakota and the larger portions of Wyoming and Colorado and Nebraska and Oklahoma fly the Stars & Stripes today...