Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rolled around there might be other victims-victims of eager political rumor and diligent speculation. Briggs pleaded not guilty. The trial was weeks away. For how many men was Briggs the goat? How much smoke proves a fire? There was plenty of time. Republican Senator William Langer of North Dakota, who had made a 57-page speech when he introduced the full cast of the mystery to the Senate, announced that he planned to make another...
...book had scarcely appeared before Harry Hopkins denounced the letter as a forgery. On second thought he set the FBI asleuthing. Republican Senator Wil liam Langer of North Dakota thought the Senate ought to investigate, too. He said he wanted to find out if Hopkins was "now dabbling in Republican politics." He made a 57-page speech in the Senate, illustrating it with photostats of letters Sparks had given to him. These were let ters between Sparks and a man named George N. Briggs. If they were genuine, they indicated that Briggs had given Sparks "The Hopkins Letter...
...born (North Dakota), superwealthy Mr. McLean lives in Merrickville, Ont., is head of the Dominion Construction Corp. of Toronto. Last October he staggered gaily through two wards of Toronto's Christie Street Hospital, gave returned soldiers fistfuls of bills ranging from $50 to $200, ended by tossing a couple of thousand dollars on the floor...
...House committee tentatively fixed the maximum mustering-out pay at $300; the Senate upped it to $500. At week's end a group of Congressmen, led by North Dakota's grizzled William Lemke, proposed a $700 maximum. Said Lemke: "Why be niggardly?" In an election year, few Congressmen would want...
Cavalryman. Pershing was graduated in '86. The hoofbeats of the cavalry were in his ears. He galloped across South Dakota over the graves of the Sioux. He taught military science at the University of Nebraska and studied law, got a degree, thought of quitting the service...