Word: dakotan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strasburg, North Dakota, and few at the time ever thought that he would grow up to intoxicate millions of music lovers with champagne music. As it turned out, North Dakota's Welk became an answer to Wisconsin's Liberace. But, after Lawrence Welk, wondered many a North Dakotan, what...
Everett Dirksen apparently could not decide if Langer was being facetious. He finally decided to play the North Dakotan straight, and as always, Dirksen was ready with a flowery reply. Said he: "The only thing I know in the rulebook about flowers is that there is in the general rules appertaining to the Senate a provision that flowers must not be brought into the Senate Chamber." It would be best, he thought, for individual Senators to follow their consciences about sending bouquets to Joe. But, he added, "Any Senator is at liberty to send flowers ... if the sweet and gentle...
...North Dakotan Langer seemed to be dragging his feet on other proposals, among them Illinois Republican Everett Dirksen's 25% limitation on income-tax rates and Vermont Republican Ralph Flanders' measure to make the Constitution acknowledge "the authority and law of Jesus Christ...
Senator William Langer's recent gibberings about the fitness of Chief Justice Warren may have been a blessing in disguise; Warren has been confirmed unscathed, and a movement is on to remove men like Langer from sensitive committee chairmanships. Indirectly attacking the North Dakotan, Senate majority leader William Knowland has proposed revisions in the seniority system. This is a recognition that the logical bases for seniority advancement are shaky...
...made an enemy of Senator William Langer, also a candidate. Langer won both the primary and the November election, and last week he faced Aandahl at a hearing of the Senate Interior Committee, which passed on the four Interior Department appointees. Happy after all to see a fellow North Dakotan in a high-Government post and a rival North Dakotan out of state politics, Langer okayed Aandahl...