Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When spring wheat fell below 75? a bu. last fortnight, tall, oratorical Governor William Langer of ever-radical North Dakota, taking advantage of a law passed by the last Legislature empowering him to curtail "an unwarranted drain upon the natural resources of the State," ordered an embargo on North Dakota wheat. Last week this embargo took effect. First effect was upon big wheat-carrying railways running through the State. The Soo, Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul let out a concerted yelp of dismay...
...impaled on the Governor's embargo rather than on the Federal law. They jointly informed the Governor that they would have to accept wheat for shipment, although they "realized the paramount necessity of higher grain prices for our farmers." The roads hoped that "if the people of North Dakota obey your command, common carriers will be in no way involved in this matter...
...commodities. Because they felt so good and sold so freely prices slumped, threatened to break through the low levels established in last July's reaction. So abruptly did prices fall, particularly wheat prices which broke the limit of fluctuation (5? a bushel), that Governor William Langer of North Dakota declared an unprecedented embargo upon all shipments of North Dakota hard wheat, tying up some 50,000,000 bushels. Some of the hedgers feared that their joy might be the cause of the very disaster they dreaded. They well knew that Mr. Roosevelt, committed to raising prices and redistributing wealth...
...down hard upon Congressman Wright Patman of Texas and his Bonus-seeking colleagues from Illinois, Missouri, South Dakota...
...Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, northern Arizona. Oct. 16 to Dec. 15-Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York (except Long Island), Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Utah, Washington, Oregon, southern Idaho, northern New Mexico. Nov. 1 to Dec. 31-Long Island, N. Y., Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, California, northern Texas. Nov. 16 to Jan. 15-New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, southern Arizona, southern Texas, southern New Mexico. Nov. 20 to Jan. 15-Florida...