Word: dakotan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, North Dakota's clangorous Republican Senator "Wild Bill" Langer has thumped loud & long as a one-man lobby against new federal appointments. His complaint: North Dakotans are the finest people in the U.S., yet not since statehood (1889) has any native Dakotan been appointed to an uppercrust federal job. Last week Bill Langer was happy. The President nominated, and the Senate quickly confirmed, a wealthy North Dakota grain buyer and farmer as ambassador to Nicaragua...
...block the confirmation of Anna M. Rosenberg as Assistant Secretary of Defense (TIME, Dec. 25). He had nothing to say against her, but he just felt that his own North Dakota was not getting enough federal patronage. He would block any presidential nomination, Langer threatened, until some North Dakotan got a first-class Washington job. The Senate heard him out, gave Mrs. Rosenberg its endorsement the next...