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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...
...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...
Through the next three years he saw many a hard-working Dakotan come to poverty through no fault of his own. Merchants and farmers, caught in the same trap together, turned to the Government. Relief checks saved the town and the family business. Said Humphrey later: "I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years at college...