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...Fact of War. But the bitter truth was that there was not much ODT could do. The Eastern railroads were using Western cars to keep war freight moving. Northern Pacific boxcars that should have been shunting wheat from Dakota towns to flour mills at Minneapolis were loaded with Army freight for the Pacific...
...Democratic majority in the Senate fell to a new low for Franklin Roosevelt's twelve-year-old regime. To succeed the late Democratic Senator John Moses, North Dakota's Governor Fred Aandahl last week appointed lean, sandy-haired Milton R. Young, 47, farmer and Republican member of the state legislature since 1933, a politico rated "a little right of center." His appointment left the Democrats 55 of 96 Senate seats...
...paternity charges brought by Joan Berry, found himself in the headlines again: a bill was introduced in the U.S. Senate directing the Attorney General to find out whether the British-born actor could be deported as an undesirable alien on charges of immorality. The bill's sponsor: North Dakota's lone wolf Senator William Langer, who had been charged with "moral turpitude" but was acquitted before being officially seated in the Senate...
...meet the manpower pinch, local draft boards were already calling up deferred farm workers aged 18 to 25 and sending them off to the services. To most farmers it meant that work would be harder, crops inevitably shorter. Some wrote their Congressmen. One of them, North Dakota's hawk-nosed Senator William Langer, collected his farmers' mail, laid some of it before Congress as it considered the May-Bailey bill to draft 4-Fs. Samples, from Dakota farming towns...
Slow-talking, 36-year-old Farmer Butters did not launch his odd scheme without encountering certain difficulties. First he had to find some buffalo. The Government finally agreed to sell him a herd then roaming the Sioux Indian reservation in South Dakota. Then bankers were skittish about lending him the purchase price. Butters mortgaged his two farms and bought the herd...