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...book had scarcely appeared before Harry Hopkins denounced the letter as a forgery. On second thought he set the FBI asleuthing. Republican Senator Wil liam Langer of North Dakota thought the Senate ought to investigate, too. He said he wanted to find out if Hopkins was "now dabbling in Republican politics." He made a 57-page speech in the Senate, illustrating it with photostats of letters Sparks had given to him. These were let ters between Sparks and a man named George N. Briggs. If they were genuine, they indicated that Briggs had given Sparks "The Hopkins Letter...
...final vote: 85 yes, 5 no, with 6 absent. (If all had been present, the final vote would have been 90-to-6.) Against the Resolution: the Midwest's triumvirate of old-style isolationists, Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, North Dakota's William Langer, Wisconsin's Robert La Follette, North Carolina's Reynolds, Montana's Wheeler (who had supported the League until 1923); and Hiram Johnson...
...Washington, Secretary Morgenthau's Congressman, lank Hamilton Fish, lamented the sale, presumed that his constituent was selling because of the serious corn shortage in the East. In the Senate North Dakota's William Langer cried "If all dairy farmers follow Morgenthau's example there will not be any more milk." But in their barns, tired, aging U.S. dairymen dourly agreed that the Morgenthau sale was shrewdly timed.* They, too, are selling milk cows. Their reasons...
...Rulka Langer is a Vassar-educated Pole who, with her two children and her mother, lived in a six-room apartment in Warsaw during its three-week siege. Her book about those weeks is far from being literature, but it has its moments as a human document...
...Croix, H. F.; Levin, K. E.; Langer, L. C.; Licht, T. S.; Lindquist...