Word: doland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pluck of poverty in his time, a lot of the story is pure hokum. Today the Senator has an income of some $30,000 a year, two homes, two automobiles, and Italian-style cuffs on the sleeves of his stylish suits. Nor was he born poor: his boyhood in Doland, S.Dak. (pop. 550) was as sunny and secure as any American boy could ask for. With his older brother Ralph and two younger sisters, Hubert grew up in a spacious, white frame house, with an Airedale named Rex, a rabbit hutch in the backyard, a cook in the kitchen...
Father Humphrey gave Hubert his passion for politics. Humphrey Sr. was a messianic Democrat in the Republican heartland (he was converted after hearing William Jennings Bryan speak). A minor politician, he was mayor of Doland, served two years in the state legislature in Pierre, and, in 1928, as a delegate to the Democratic Convention in Houston, he helped nominate Al Smith...
Drought and Depression. By the time Hubert went off to the University of Minnesota in 1929. Doland was feeling the pangs of prolonged drought and imminent depression. Both local banks failed, and Father Humphrey was forced to sell the family home to pay his debts. Bankrupt farmers bartered chickens for their drugs. In Minneapolis, Hubert soaked up the intellectual sunshine, earned his board with a 15?-an-hour clerking job in a campus drugstore, and slept with ten other students in an icy attic. But after his sophomore year he went home. His father could no longer afford to keep...