Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North Dakota's Frazier...
With two Governors dangling on strings against a backdrop of the State's new $2,000,000 skyscraping Capitol at Bismarck, North Dakota last week treated the nation to an extraordinary political puppet show. Lieut.-Governor Ole Olson, in shirtsleeves held up by blue garters, sat in the Governor's chair, issued proclamations, ruled the State. But to thousands and thousands of sunburned, wind-bitten North Dakota farmers, William Langer was still their rightful Governor...
...show started last week when the North Dakota Supreme Court issued an order ousting Governor Langer from the office to which he was elected in 1932. According to the State court, Langer was disqualified because in Federal Court last month he had been convicted of conspiracy to defraud the U. S. out of $179.50 in relief funds, had been fined $10.000, sentenced to 18 months in jail (TIME, June 25). Before he was ousted Governor Langer declared martial law, summoned a special session of the Legislature...
...moved into the Governor's office, revoked martial law, cancelled the call for the special Legislative session. But a pack of Legislators went to Bismarck anyway. Because "Bill" Langer is a hugely popular politician, because he was renominated for the Governorship after his Federal conviction, because North Dakota farmers believe he is defending them against the ogre of Big Business, his partisans decided to hold the special session, regardless of Ole Olson. The House, topheavy with Langermen, quickly met and organized, but the Senate was stalled by the lack of quorum. William Langer appeared before the House, cried...
...proof he had the writings of students in 205 colleges, including every major one except Princeton, whose Class Poet in 1903 was Henry Goddard Leach. Every State except Arizona, Delaware, Nevada, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming was represented. There were marked regional differences. Most melodious were Southern poets, who picked dark themes, treated them tenderly. Most mystical were Californians; most practical, Ohioans. Natives of New England and Oregon, its Pacific offspring, were inclined to find their romance in scientific observation. New Yorkers distinguished themselves by lack of originality, as compared with Minnesotans...