Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once cold dawn last week, explosive flames spurted from the top floor of North Dakota's four-story brick Capitol at Bismarck. So quickly did they devour tindery old boards and plaster and dry bales of official papers, that by noon all that was left of the 46-year-old building was smoking rubble. When the State was still part of Dakkota Territory, frontiersmen traveled long western miles to stare in pride and wonder at the structure's once famed "gingerbread" architecture...
Lost in the fire were invaluable masses of State papers, tax documents, land and mortage records. Secretary of State Robert Byrne dashed in and saved the North Dakota Constitution but was badly cut by loose glass. Governor George Shafer summoned all State officials to an emergency conference, declared: "Loss of records will result in the greatest confusion in the State's history and years will elapse before it is untangled." Property damage: $600,000 (covered by insurance...
...Editor Sam Clark attacked him in his magazine, Captain Billy bought him out. There after came Modern Mechanics and Inventions (later sued by Popular Mechanics on its title, and by Fritz von Opel, the German rocketeer, for an article concerning him) ; Startling Detective Adventures (sued by a North Dakota sheriff for an article which he claimed he did not write), Hollywood and two months ago, Mystic Magazine, an idea conceived in Paris by Mrs. Fawcett. Mystic Magazine capitalizes the current faddish interest in astrology and (to quote Variety) "mitt-reading." Its first issue carried an "exclusive" spirit message from...
...long career of James John Davis as a Federal jobholder was punctuated last week by a 33-minute lapse into private citizenship. Resigning as Secretary of Labor, the Senator-elect from Pennsylvania was delayed that length of time at the Capitol while North Dakota's Senator Nye challenged his eligibility. The charge: more than $600,000 was spent to elect the ticket on which Mr. Davis ran. The Senate's prompt vote (58-0-27) to seat Mr. Davis gave Pennsylvania its full elected Senate representation for the first time in nearly four years. As Senator Davis took...
Playwright Sherwood's show begins when Miss Moran's father, a South Dakota Senator, comes to New York. Both he and his wife are definitely opposed to the city, advocate its secession from the union. No less are they opposed to their daughter's marrying Mr. Kerr, a Manhattan socialite whose past is rife with youthful follies. Then Miss Moran attempts to extricate her fiance from the claims of his mercenary mistress (Miss Dale). It is about this time (Act II) that the play begins to take life. At the paramour's apartment an impromptu fiesta...