Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South Dakota Republicans met at Pierre last week to nominate a governor, none of the five candidates in last fortnight's primary having polled the 35% of the total vote required for nomination (TIME, May 19). No. 1 in the primary had been Secretary of State Gladys Pyle, running strong on her personal popularity, without organization support. No. 5 and last had been Warren E. Green, dirt farmer of Hazel. For eleven ballots in the Pierre convention Miss Pyle deadlocked with Brooke Howell of Frederick for first place. Suddenly Mr. Howell, on orders from the state organization, withdrew, throwing...
...South Dakota. Since he entered the Senate in 1924, Senator William Henry McMaster has worked with the insurgent Republican faction. In his campaign to retain his seat, he frankly asked for renomination and re-election "as a vote of confidence in Northwest Progressive Republicans who voted with Democrats against Administration policies." Wisconsin's insurgent Senator LaFollette went into South Dakota to campaign for him. His opponent was George Jonathan Danforth, whose major appeal was that he was a "Hoover Republican." In last week's voting South Dakota Republicans went anti-Hoover by 13,000 votes, renominated Senator McMaster...
...South Dakota's Republican gubernatorial contest, Miss Gladys Pyle, now Secretary of State, led a field of four men by 3,000 votes. As she did not obtain the 35% of the total vote required for nomination, the choice will go to a State convention next week, where she is likely to be selected. Miss Pyle, 39, with brown curly hair, has a head full of reform ideas to be executed if she reaches the Governor's office at Pierre...
...guide North Dakota's Senator Nye, chairman of the Senate committee, in scrutinizing the details of Mrs. McCormick's expenditures, there are no set rules on how much a Senate candidate should or should not spend for a seat. The size of a State, the intensity of the campaign, the breadth of appeal generally control the outlay. Obviously it costs less in the aggregate to reach Nevada's 32,000 voters than New York's 4,250,000, though the cost-per-vote is often much higher in small States than in large...
Crawford was graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1920 with the degree of S. B. Since 1920, an instructor in Physics. Crawford was Bayard Cutting Fellow for Research in Physics from 1927 until 1929. Recently he was given one of the Milton awards, which he is to use for research in an amplifier for small direct currents...