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...North Dakota: Scandinavian, Lutheran, Republican...
Closeup (ABC), a documentary series with an enlightened sponsor (Bell & Howell), opened with a telling study of "prejudice in the North.'' From Puerto Rican Harlem to South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation for Sioux Indians, from the besetting problems of a Negro lawyer in Los Angeles to the defeating frustrations of a Jewish doctor trying to buy a home in Grosse Pointe, Mich., the program moved quietly around the country to make its point that discrimination is not merely a regional disgrace...
...regret the rain, but it rains, as the Bible tells us. on the just and the unjust alike, on Republicans as well as Democrats." He was right: when Nixon spoke from the same platform next day, it rained again, though not until near the end of the speech (South Dakota is traditionally Republican territory). A week before, at Guthrie Center, Iowa, Nixon had laid out the first half of his farm program, "Operation Consume," designed to shrink present farm surpluses by increasing consumption of farm products (TIME, Sept. 26). At Sioux Falls he unwrapped the second half, "Operation Safeguard," designed...
This week in South Dakota, Nixon promised to spell out the second half of his program: "Operation Safeguard," designed to prevent the production of more farm surpluses while "Operation Consume" eats up the plenty that the U.S. already...
...Gerald L. K. Smith, the pitchman of Huey Long's Share the Wealth program (and later a founder of the America First Party and a convicted subversive in World War II), and Father Charles E. Coughlin, priest-leader of the notorious "social justice" movement. Their presidential candidate, North Dakota's Representative William Lemke, polled a mere 891,000 out of 44,000,000 votes. Later, for refusing to answer a congressional committee, Townsend was sentenced to 30 days in jail for contempt. But Franklin Roosevelt recognized the portents of martyrdom, granted him "an unsolicited pardon...