Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Burton Kendall Wheeler, number-two-man of the Progressive (LaFollette) ticket in 1924, travelled with the Nominee on the train, energetic, cordial. . . . Some Montana Indians replaced the Brown Derby with eagle feathers and named the wearer Chief Leading Star. They daubed his face with warpaint. . . . . . . The Sioux of North Dakota produced another headdress and the Happy Warrior became Chief Charging Hawk Leading Star Alfred Emanuel Governor Smith, Sachem of St. Tammany's Society. ... He played checkers with an Irishman in the Veterans' Hospital near Fort Snelling, Minn. He won. . . . He complained: "I can't fight hard enough...
...North Dakota, Walter Haddock, the Non-Partisan who became Governor last month when Republican Governor Arthur Gustav Sorlie died, received Nominee Smith at Bismarck (the capital), shook the Smith hand, rode on the Smith Special. But he would only say that 80% of the North Dakota farmers were for Smith and that he (Maddock) was for the farmers. Friends said Governor Maddock was being careful for Nominee Smith's sake because he, too, is a Roman Catholic. Others said: "Maddock is out for himself only...
...Washington, Senator Nye of North Dakota asked the following question: "Shall we as progressive people give our support to the candidate of Tammany, that institution which bitterly fought and assailed Lincoln; which left no stone unturned to defeat that great progressive leader, William Jennings Bryan; which is wide open to the charge of having traded its strength in 1924 against the interests of the candidacy of Robert M. LaFollette, the greatest of all leaders of progressive thought...
...relief. He was going into nine states, carefully selected on the basis of their presidential vote in 1924. It was a dash and a drive to capture Kansas and Colorado which Calvin Coolidge carried by large majorities; Minnesota and Wyoming, which Calvin Coolidge carried by small majorities; Montana, North Dakota and Nebraska, which Calvin Coolidge carried with fewer votes than Democrat Davis and Progressive La Follette divided between them; Oklahoma and Wisconsin, which Calvin Coolidge did not carry. ... In Manhattan, Lawyer Frank P. Walsh, one of the late La Follette's campaign managers, now chairman of a Progressive League...
Nebraska, South Dakota. Two tornadoes struck rural districts of Nebraska and South Dakota. Eleven were killed, among them Schoolmistress Rooney, who was tossed 300 feet. Estimated property damage...