Word: doland
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...Doland B. Sole...
What do Dixon, Boise, Saint Johns, Mission, Westminster, Shirkieville, Floresville and Clio have in common? If, understandably, the light does not dawn, try this: Laurinburg, Walters, Rumford, Mitchell, Everett, Doland and Pocantico Hills. In case the riddle is still not solved, two more names should give it away: Plains and Grand Rapids...
...selfimportance. They are the ones who listened to and believed the Scripture lessons about helping each other and rejecting materialism. They learned the satisfaction of personal excellence and leading others. They are all now on the threshold of an adventure that not even they imagined back in Mitchell, Doland, Shirkieville, Everett, Rumford and Ida Grove...
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...