Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When North Dakota's aging (65) Senator "Wild Bill" Langer decided to run for re-election this year, he seemed to be a candidate's dream of an opponent. There were so many things in his record...
...Langer was ousted as governor of North Dakota after being convicted and sentenced to 18 months in prison for extracting political contributions from public employees. He was finally acquitted after an appeal and two new trials, but there was more trouble ahead. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1940 after a surprising political comeback, he faced a "moral turpitude" accusation. The Senate Elections Committee voted 13-3 to exclude him, after the majority agreed that his record was studded with "gross impropriety, lawlessness, shotgun law enforcement" and property deals which amounted to "briberies." Despite all this, the Senate...
...weeks pundits had been adjusting their political Geiger counters to pick up every psychological click from South Dakota's Republican primary. Those 14 delegates were important, everyone agreed, but the bigger prize was the effect on voters everywhere of victory in the last state primary...
After the national speculation about South Dakota and psychology, the Republican voters had put their primary right back in its place: a contest for delegates. Bob Taft was the winner even if his margin was only 615 votes. There were 14 delegates to be had in South Dakota, and he had them...
...Enemy? Kefauver is the candidate whose effort most nearly resembles a straight struggle for delegates. Last week, after he picked up 68 delegates from California and eight from South Dakota, he claimed a total strength of about 300. Yet even the Kefauver people know that Truman and the other party leaders will go into the convention in control of 700 or more votes which Kefauver probably cannot touch unless the leaders decide to hand them...