Word: langer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, North Dakota's clangorous Republican Senator "Wild Bill" Langer has thumped loud & long as a one-man lobby against new federal appointments. His complaint: North Dakotans are the finest people in the U.S., yet not since statehood (1889) has any native Dakotan been appointed to an uppercrust federal job. Last week Bill Langer was happy. The President nominated, and the Senate quickly confirmed, a wealthy North Dakota grain buyer and farmer as ambassador to Nicaragua...
...Whelan, the new ambassador, is a staunch Republican, and onetime Republican state committeeman, in a state where Democrats are as rare as Republicans in Alabama. He opposed Langer in the Republican primary for the Senate in 1940, but it proved to be a friendly act: Whelan's candidacy split the anti-Langer vote, and Wild Bill won easily. But why should Harry Truman be interested in such Republican matters? The fact is that unpredictable Bill Langer votes with the Administration more than half the time, and has never been paid...
...soldiers may fade away, but emeritus professors keep right on working. This year, Sidney B. Fay, '96, professor of History, emeritus, came out of retirement on two-days notice to give History 132 when William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History, was called to Washington...
...department has made course changes not listed in the preliminary course catalogue. Continental Europe (132) will be divided in half. Langer, the great drawing card, will return from a leave of absence to teach the second half, 1870 to 1914. Carl E. Schorske, professor of History at Wesleyan, will give from...
Direct election of the President brought about by independent voters who are willing to organize and abolish the electoral college is the only way to uncover better leaders, Senator Langer said...