Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in 18 years, North Dakota's slick Gerald Prentice Nye faced a real threat to his well-warmed seat in the U.S. Senate. On June 27, Congress' foremost isolationist goes into the hardest primary fight of his career...
...defeated, his Senate seniority will go to his bitter foe, slippery William Langer, another kind of North Dakota statesman. In 1942, "Slippery Bill" triumphed over ten fat volumes of charges of moral turpitude: his Senate colleagues voted (52-10-30) to ignore the whole thing. Last week, having maneuvered Senator Nye into a three-cornered primary fight, Slippery Bill stumped the state with his own hand-picked candidate. He hoped to inherit: 1) control of two seats in the U.S. Senate; 2) all of North Dakota's Federal patronage; 3) overlordship of Bismarck's 19-story State Capitol...
Many North Dakota Republicans see a dismal choice of evils between Gerald Nye's rabid, unrepentant isolationism and the Langer machine's shady political reputation. With evangelical zeal, the state's businessmen, mostly political amateurs, are backing a third candidate: able Lynn U. Stambaugh, 53, onetime (1941-42) National Commander of the American Legion. Trim, hearty Legionnaire Stambaugh, a successful Fargo lawyer and long-time advocate of U.S. participation in world affairs, has invested in 53 red-white-& -blue billboards for a high-pressure campaign. But the grain growers and stockmen who cast most of North Dakota...
...members of the House Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation called on the President to present him with three handsome, white-leather-bound copies of their hearings on the development of the Columbia River. Mr. Roosevelt spied North Dakota's grizzled William Lemke, Union Party candidate for President...
...khaki staff car, marked with the four red stars, rolled across the sleeping countryside. At busy, nervous dromes the General chatted with the air soldiers. He looked for a paratrooper from Kansas. He joked with one youngster about his haircut. He asked a boy who had been a Dakota farmer how much wheat he had grown per acre...