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...Himstead, executive secretary of the august American Association of University Professors, to suggest that the Board "take another look at these three young men (the fired economists)." When the Regents declined to take the hint, Himstead reminded them of "what happened" to the University of North Dakota when Governor Langer fired four deans and 16 professors. "Our degrees are at stake," howled Texas' students, who knew, if the Regents did not, that disapproval by the A.A.U.P. would mean a mass emigration of Texas professors and an irrevocable loss of prestige to Texas...
Thus strengthened, the conservatives moved up for the final battle. On their side were all the Republicans (save North Dakota's lone corporal, Bill Langer) and a solid regiment of Southern Democrats...
...Bill Langer's choice to beat Nye is Usher Lloyd Burdick, 65, for the last ten years a plodding, mild-mannered U.S. Representative whose hobby is collecting and rebinding old volumes of Wild West Americana. Usher Burdick is a pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist who changed his mind. A colorless radio speaker, lacking the verve and rabble-rousing fire of either Opponent Nye or Boss Langer, Candidate Burdick goes poorly in the cities. He is a great success with small groups of farmers when he rips off his coat and speaks in unvarnished and unrehearsed language. But some of Burdick...
Many North Dakota Republicans see a dismal choice of evils between Gerald Nye's rabid, unrepentant isolationism and the Langer machine's shady political reputation. With evangelical zeal, the state's businessmen, mostly political amateurs, are backing a third candidate: able Lynn U. Stambaugh, 53, onetime (1941-42) National Commander of the American Legion. Trim, hearty Legionnaire Stambaugh, a successful Fargo lawyer and long-time advocate of U.S. participation in world affairs, has invested in 53 red-white-& -blue billboards for a high-pressure campaign. But the grain growers and stockmen who cast most of North Dakota...
Political reporters who watched Candidate Burdick stumping the rural districts, whipping off his coat under the expert Langer management, bluntly predicted that Nye was through. But Washington observers-especially those who watched Gerald Nye's shrewd progress from a young bumpkin in bulbous yellow shoes to a sleekly tailored politician who drew down handsome lecture fees for anti-British, anti-Russian tirades-still believed strongly in the Nye talent for self-preservation...