Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours. Sometimes you can win him in a trice with a ponderous period. And tiresome though it is to turn out ponderous periods, life is often brightened by the gorgeous retorts of the heathen. For example, this is the answer one Hooverizer got when he approached an insurgent South Dakota editor: "I am for Hoover just about as far as you can throw our party elephant by the pin feathers with your arm broken in four places...
Connecticut South Dakota...
Delaware North Dakota...
Died. Arthur Gustav Sorlie, 54, Governor of North Dakota (Non-Partisan); of heart disease; in Bismarck...
...pond swans, owned by a Mrs. George W. Douglas. There were no speeches or press statements. The Nominee, with smiling Western Manager James W. ("Sir James") Good for impresario, simply shook hands with every one, let them look at him, talk to him, ask him questions. A North Dakota contingent, led by Prohibition Administrator John N. Hagen, was assured that Hooverism is extremely Dry. (North Dakota lately voted within 5,000 of repealing its longtime State enforcement law.) North Dakota's boyish Senator Gerald P. Nye was there and, though the Nominee declined to commit himself to an extra...