Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perhaps the most remarkable filibuster in Senate history, first-term Democrats James Abourezk of South Dakota and Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio turned the chamber into a marathon slumber party that kept the Senators up until dawn the first day, late the following night, and threatened to continue this week. Their stated objective: to block any move to lift the federal ceiling on the price of natural gas sold interstate. The ordeal was fresh evidence that an independent and unpredictable Senate is defying its own leadership and the White House. The week also marked the emergence of Byrd...
...northwestern section of wheat-growing North Dakota, Stan Erickson, 33, was busy from dawn to dusk, bringing in his crop: 10,000 bu. of durum wheat from 400 acres. The achievement left him and his father with a marketing dilemma. Half of last year's crop-8,000 bu.-is still in storage on the family farm. This year the Ericksons cut back their planting by 200 acres but were still forced to spend $3,000 for an additional, 6,000-bu. storage bin. Says the younger Erickson: "We had too good a year. Last year there...
...North Dakota's Republican Governor William Langer was removed from office in 1934, following conviction for soliciting political contributions from federal employees. The conviction was overturned in 1935. In 1924 Indiana's Republican Governor Warren McCray received a ten-year prison sentence for misuse of the mails in his personal financial transactions; he was pardoned by President Hoover after serving three years...
...compromise with the B-1 proponents by approving production of at least a limited number of the planes. Especially pleased were Carter's liberal critics within his own party. Senator Gary Hart of Colorado called the decision "encouraging and wise." Senator George McGovern of South Dakota, who said in May that he could see little difference between Carter and a Republican President, praised him for "prudence, leadership and courage...
There are three hazards to living in North Dakota, the residents there are fond of saying: blizzards, mosquitoes and Robert McCarney. A millionaire Ford auto dealer, McCarney, 65, is the all-time champion referendum holder in the state. He has forced so many laws to be tested at the polls that he has been referred to as "the fourth branch of state government." His current crusade is to stop North Dakota from spending some $18.5 million for new buildings. Boasts he: "Any benefit to the people of this state has come through my efforts, not the legislature...