Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Pat Harrison and seven Democratic Congressmen were renominated without opposition. Congressmen Ross Alexander Collins won renomination after a close contest. The Senate Slush Fund Committee held a special meeting at Fargo, N. Dak., to investigate charges that Chicago detectives were trailing its chairman, Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota. One detective admitted that he had been assigned the task of looking up Senator Nye's "life" but insisted he was not trying to get something on him. Asked by newsmen if he thought the detective had been employed by friends of Illinois' Republican Senatorial Nominee Ruth Hanna...
Died. Thomas Sterling, 79, Washington attorney, onetime (1901-1910) dean of South Dakota University's College of Law, Republican Senator from South Dakota from 1913 until 1925; after a heart attack, in Washington...
According to the Census Bureau, 2% of the total U. S. population was jobless. Mississippi and South Dakota tied for low score with only ½% of their inhabitants unemployed. Joblessness reached its peak in Michigan where 3.3% could not find work. New York, with the largest jobless list (364,617), was 2.9% idle. Computations of unemployment on the basis of total populations have been seriously criticized on the ground that they do not show the true relation between workers and those seeking work. Census estimators unofficially figured that the number of unemployed was 5.2% of the gainful workers-that...
...following 22 States and the District of Columbia no public school moppet need spend a penny for books in the grade schools: Arizona, California, Delaware, Maine, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Kentucky, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Wyoming...
...there been any systematic effort to educate them. In the U. S. every state except Delaware, New Hampshire, Nevada and Wyoming, supports schools for the deaf. Those four states send their deaf children at public expense to schools in other states. Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, North Dakota, Rhode Island, West Virginia and Vermont have compulsory school attendance laws for deaf children...