Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What sort of fathers are Senators? A statistical Washington reporter decided to take a census of Senatorial offspring, with especial regard to twins. In this respect the greatest father of all is Dr. Edwin Fremont Ladd, senior Senator from North Dakota, progenitor of eight children including two sets of twins. William H. King of Utah confesses to one pair of twins, born last Summer while he was abroad with Senator Ladd. Lynn J. Frazier, the other Senator from North Dakota, has one modest set of twins to his credit. Earle B. Mayfield of Texas, elected by the Ku Klux Klan...
During the last Congress there were just five Senators who had begun their service in the last century: Lodge of Massachusetts, Warren of Wyoming, Nelson of Minnesota, Culberson of Texas, McCumber of North Dakota. Lodge and Warren will see the next Congress. Knute Nelson is dead. McCumber fell before the radical onslaughts of Lynn J. Frazier and Culberson succumbed to Earle B. Mayfield and the Ku Klux Klan...
Their program. When this bill is introduced it will " have hard sled- fling " in committee, as Messrs. Borah and Woodruff admit. In the Senate Judiciary Committee, especially, there will be difficulty, for the Committee includes Brandegee of Connecticut (Chairman), Cummins of Iowa, Colt of Rhode Island, Sterling of South Dakota, Shortridge of California, Walsh of Montana. Almost its only supporters will be Mr. Borah himself and Senator Norris of Nebraska. But the proponents of the bill hope to get it out on the floor of Congress and fight for it there...
...Politics. The appointment of Mr. Kellogg, it is said, will net the Republican regulars nothing; it will alienate the radicals of the Northwest. Senator Frazier, Republican insurgent from North Dakota, and Senator Wheeler, Democratic " Progressive " from Montana, both exclaimed: "The appointment shows the President is not a Progressive "and promised to vote against Mr. Kellogg's confirmation as Ambassador by the Senate. Gordell Hull, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, delivered his usual caustic comment: " I wonder what Newberry will be appointed to." Otherwise comment was more of surprise than of disapprobation...
White Desert. A primitive tragedy of jealousy on a lonely North Dakota farm condensed into four acts and five characters makes doubtful entertainment. At the end the theatregoer finds himself gazing on a corpse, two people desperate from unhappiness, another a trifle crazy, a fifth? very old. The theatregoer is inclined to wonder if life is like that and whether a nifty here and there would not have helped. As a matter of fact the author, with a relentless logic, has shown that life under the circumstances could not possibly have been otherwise. Though he has created an artistic cross...