Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Onetime South Dakota lawyer and Democratic National Committeeman, William Washington Howes came into the Farley official family as Second Assistant Postmaster General in charge of airmail. When First Assistant Postmaster General Joseph C. O'Mahoney resigned to become U. S. Senator from Wyoming, indications were that his place would go to an outsider. Then William Washington Howes made a speech at Newburgh, N. Y., in which he hailed James Aloysius Farley as "the greatest postmaster general since Benjamin Franklin." Short time later William Washington Howes succeeded Joseph C. O'Mahoney...
...pass around an unofficial petition to bring it out on the floor. When the official petition was opened, within one day it had 139 of the necessary 145 signatures. Alarmed, Administration leaders got busy, induced 15 Congressmen to withdraw their signatures. Meantime Representative William Lemke from financially radical North Dakota also got busy, collected seven new signatures...
...Recent rains in South Dakota were cause for excitement at the stockholders' meeting of Chicago & North Western Ry. Drought and a grasshopper plague had combined with Depression to push North Western's deficit to $11,216,000 in 1932. Last year it was cut to $7,875,000. President Fred Wesley Sargent told his stock-holders last week that if North Western's earnings continued at the rate enjoyed for the first quarter the road would finish this year with a $2,000,000 profit...
...worthless bonds and stock certificates, called it the Million-dollar Room. Last week in Chicago a noisy rabble of 10,000 bondholders from 22 states marched down Michigan Boulevard tossing equally worthless bonds on the street, trampling them with vicious whoops. Led by Governor William Langer of North Dakota, they shouted, "We've been robbed." displayed banners reading: "WE HAVE BONDS, BUT NO BREAD." "DILLINGER AND CAPONE ARE AMATEURS." Thousands of spectators jampacked the sidewalks as the three-mile procession rolled through the financial district, police motorcycles chattering in the vanguard. In the rear, street urchins dived after...
Over the unmarked hump of ground in South Dakota's Black Hills where lies Deadwood Dick Carver, boomtown desperado and dime novel hero, the Deadwood Chamber of Commerce voted to place a rough stone monument and a brass plate...