Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again Nye. Soon the names of Wilbur and Kelley were joined in the headlines by that of ambitious young Senator Gerald Prentice Nye of North Dakota, Chairman of the Public Lands Committee, investigator of the second oil scandals (1928). Senator Nye summoned Field Chief Kelley for an hour's conference after which he declared: "I can't help but be impressed by the spirit moving Mr. Kelley. I think he is entitled to a hearing. His charges do not go to the door of Secretary Wilbur. There is a door to which his objections lead and that door should...
...when Hamlin Garland was 24, he left his father's South Dakota farm and went to Boston, then U. S. literary capital, with $140 in his pocket. This book tells of his early struggles to become a literary man, his gradual progress, the famed friends, acquaintances, heroes...
...Henry P. Fletcher (chairman), Republican, of Pennsylvania, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Italy; Thomas Walker Page, Democrat, of Virginia, chairman of Wilson's Tariff Commission; John Lee Coulter, Republican, of North Carolina, chief economist and chairman of the Advisory Board of the present Commission, onetime president of North Dakota Agricultural & Mechanical College, able rural economist. Meanwhile Citizen Calvin Coolidge took his first public dig at a Hoover policy. In his daily syndicate article, Citizen Coolidge wrote: "The report that the Tariff Commission is about to start investigations of a wide variety of commodities will not give much encouragement...
...feud between Clark Howell, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution and Political Boss Hollins Randolph, Sculptor Borglum was dismissed for incompetence, lack of progress. Sculptor Borglum destroyed his clay models in a fit of pique, was promptly indicted as a felon by an Atlanta grand jury. He removed to South Dakota, where he undertook to chisel the face of Mount Rushmore into 400-ft. statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and embellish the whole with a 500-word history of the U. S. by Calvin Coolidge...
...Senate, Republican Nominee Ruth Hanna McCormick last week found herself confronted by three adversaries instead of one. They were: 1) James Hamilton ("J. Ham") Lewis, Democratic Senatorial nominee; 2) Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neill, independent dry candidate; 3) the Senate Committee on Campaign Expenditures chairmanned by North Dakota's 37-year-old Senator Gerald Prentice Nye. Adversary No. 3 furnished the week's melodramatics...