Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred ribbons of forest, each 150 ft. wide, each 1,200 miles long, each one mile from a parallel strip-stretching from North Dakota to Texas-such was the "shelter belt" that Franklin Roosevelt proposed two years ago to protect the dry edge of the prairies from dust and wind. Estimated cost of the project was $75,000,000. Relief funds were allotted, 20 nurseries leased to grow seedling trees, destitute farmers employed to plant them out. Some $2,900,000 has been spent on the project, 45,000,000 trees planted. Last February the Department of Agriculture asked...
...South Dakota State School of Mines (Rapid City) Stratosphere Balloonist Orvil A. Anderson ... D.E. Secretary Arthur Barrette Parson of American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers...
...penalties of early fame. Spotlighted in Washington last week was the rarer but less tragic phenomenon of a man to fame came late. Seventeen years ago Dr. Francis Everett retired to California to spend last years in the sun. Like that of every physician, his life in South Dakota's Black Hills had been a hard one which had him no fame and very little Legend has it that Dr. Townsend's new life began when he looked out of his California window one day, saw two crones dining from a garbage can. It is more reasonable...
...only Republican firm to have made any political profit during the last three years of the New Deal Congress has been the North Dakota concern of Frazier & Lemke. Senior member is big, bald Lynn J. Frazier of Hoople, who sits in the Senate. Junior partner is freckle-faced William Lemke of Fargo, who does business for the firm in the House. Representative Lemke, despite his wrinkled clothes and his frequent need of a shave, has a good command of English, a well-schooled mind, an amiable disposition, a law degree from Yale, a conscientious ability far above the Congressional average...
Speaker Byrns, Rules Chairman O'Connor, House Leader Bankhead and Whip Boland made every preparation to put the North Dakota firm out of business this time. Representative Boland announced that the Bill would be beaten by at least 50 votes, and Speaker Byrns pooh-poohed self-confidently. On the morning debate began, every Representative received a memorandum from the Farm Credit Administration ripping the Bill from stem to stern. That helped some but House leaders appealed to an even greater political authority. While the Bill was under consideration in Committee of the Whole, Speaker Byrns rose on, the floor...