Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attribute the decline in the power of the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota chiefly to the blunders of the League itself," declared Walter W. Liggett, Deputy Commissioner of Immigration in the state of North Dakota and eastern representative of the Nonpartisan League, when interviewed recently by a representative of the CRIMSON. "We naturally are human and fallible and since the people of North Dakota are human and fallible they have drifted away from the movement. There have been several egregious blunders, perhaps the worst of which was the appointment of a very unpopular man defeated in his campaign for election...
...control of North Dakota has undoubtedly been shaken but we still have a majority. Some years ago we carried the state with over three fourths of the votes cast, while this last fall we got only 51 per cent of the votes. But the League has spread to other states. We have a membership of 250,000 in 13 states and had tickets up in 9 states this last fall, polling a gubernatorial vote of 1,245,000 in these 9 states, more than the Socialist and Farmer-Labor parties combined got in 48 states...
When asked what was the connection of the Nonpartisn League with the Farmer-Labor party, Mr. Liggett replied emphatically. "We have nothing to do with the Farmer-Labor Party and their organization has not affected our hold on the farmer, they did not even run a ticket in North Dakota." Mr. Liggett refused to say, however, either that the Farmer-Labor Party was headed to extinction or that the Nonpartian League would not amalgamate with the new party. "In fact I look to the emalgamation of all the radical parties in the country in about a year," he declared...
...clock tonight in the Paine Hall for the benefit of the Palmer Memorial Institute. The Palmer Memorial Institute was named in memory of Alice Freeman Palmer, who was the wife of Professor George H. Palmer, and was President of Wellesley for seven years. It is situated at Sedalia, North Dakota, and its purpose is the training of negro men and women...
...Army, however, is not so remarkable an aggregation this year that there is likely to be much wrangling over the fact that the Cadets draw their best grid material from other colleges. Purdue gave Olyphant a thorough football education before he took up soldiering, and Vidal starred for South Dakota. French is the most promising transfer this year...