Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This experience in lay writing started Maxwell Anderson, University of North Dakota, II, in a field of rich creation. Before then, he had vascillated between an academic career (school teaching in the Dakotas and the English department at Stanford) and writing for pay (newspaper work on two coasts, east and west). After What Price Glory he wrote nearly a hit a year. In 1930 it was Elizabeth the Queen, in 1933 Mary of Scotland. Both Your Houses won the Politzer prize. A month of so ago his friendly enemies, the New York critics, awarded him a plaque for having written...
...intensive college-wide campaign for the furtherance of world peace will get under way tonight when Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota and Norman Thomas, prominent Socialist, address the student body in a program sponsored by the Harvard Student Union...
...political figures of national prominence will air their views on the perennial problems of world peace and national security when Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota speaks with Norman Thomas, prominent Socialist leader, in a joint program on Thursday evening...
...difference in altitude between Wall Street and the Black Hills of South Dakota-5,300 ft.-is no greater than that between the ruck of stockmarket quotations and the price of stock in Homestake Mining Co., most eminent Black Hills business. Biggest and most consistently profitable gold mine in the U. S., Homestake rose during the Depression from. $65 per share in 1929 to a point where, at more than $300 per share in 1933, it was the highest-price active stock on the New York Stock Exchange. Since then it has continued upward to the rarefied levels...
...final result of the election would be determined in the remaining area where the Democrats are at present least strong, the Republicans least weak. That area, roughly bounded by the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains, approximates the grain belt. There Kansas has 9 electoral votes, Minnesota, 11, South Dakota 4, Wisconsin 12, Wyoming 3, Colorado 6. Total...