Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South has given the U.S. Senate more than its share of sub-minor statesmen of the Heflin-Bilbo stamp. But the South has competition. Last week the confirmation of Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the U.S. was being blocked by one man, the Bilbo of the North: North Dakota's Senator William Langer. As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Langer, after weeks of delay, insisted on considering the charges in a handful of letters opposing Warren's appointment. Some of the letters are obviously from cranks, none of them contains any evidence to support charges. The charges...
Langer does not believe a word of these charges. He has known and liked Earl Warren for years, and even supported Warren for President of the U.S. The explanation of Langer's conduct lies in North Dakota politics-and very smalltime politics, at that...
Langer won Republican nominations for Senator in 1940 and 1946 over the bitter opposition of the regular North Dakota Republican organization. His support comes from the remnants of Non-Partisan League, a populist organization of which he is a leader. In his feud with home-state Republicans, Langer used to get considerable help from his close political friend, President Truman. He now wants to use his position as head of the Judiciary Committee to force the Republican Administration to give him a tight hold on all federal patronage in North Dakota...
...owns the paper. Bethke worked before and after school and all day Saturday for a salary of $3 a week. He began to learn hand composition, then linotype, layout and makeup. After graduating from high school, he worked as editor of the paper for a year before going to Dakota Wesleyan University. During summers he toured the Midwest as an itinerant printer, ''working with the last of a famous breed, the oldtime tramp printers...
...South Dakota became the 28th oil-producing state in the U.S. when the Shell Oil Co. brought in the first producing well at 8,600 feet, in the northwest part of the state close to the Montana border...