Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apparently, the devil has inspired the amusement people with the wit to call for referenda, for everywhere except in South Dakota these popular ballots have been favorable to their cause. The "decline" and "de-generation" of Rome, caused, as Mr. Tarkington has shown, by Sunday gladiatorial combats, have failed to impress America with the importance of one day of absolute holiness. The Lord's Day Alliance is peculiarly fortunate; it will never...
Representative Royal C. Johnson, South Dakota Republican, made the announcement that he is informed by checkers-up employed by the American Legion that 68, or over two-thirds, of the Senate are in favor of bonus legislation. If this statement is true, it would be possible to pass a bonus bill over the President's veto, with a margin of four votes. Mr. Johnson did not state, however, what new friends had been found for the bonus since the Senate upheld President Harding's veto of the bill in the last Congress. The advocates of bonus legislation...
Richard Franklin Pettigrew, of Sioux Falls, was elected to the United States Senate in 1889. He remained there until 1902 when Mark Hanna "raised a vast sum of money to corrupt the voters of South Dakota...
...what I had said about him and he determined that he would have revenge! My term in the Senate would expire in 1901, and Mark Hanna made up his mind to prevent my reelection. Mr. Hanna raised a vast sum of money to corrupt the voters of South Dakota. ... I was very badly beaten in the election...
...resolution recently adopted by the legislature of the State of South Dakota urged...