Word: langere
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Around Bismarck, whence he came, Bill Langer has a stanch following of voters who feel that he is just as good as the next man. They twice elected him Governor. When he was tried on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Federal Government in administering relief, one jury convicted him, another disagreed, a third set him free. But when his people sent him to the Senate last year, a group of North Dakota citizens protested...
...Senate seated Bill Langer "without prejudice," reserved the right to unseat him later. A pair of sleuths went out to North Dakota, turned over Langer's 30-year record with a fine-tooth muckrake. On the basis of their report, the committee summoned Langer to testify at a public hearing. The Senate wanted the answers to such questions as these, raised by the testimony...
...lawyer for the Great Northern Railway paid Langer $25,000 for stock in some Mexican lands (which had already been expropriated), after Great Northern's taxes were cut $150,000 a year...
...baldish Attorney Gregory Brunk, after profiting mightily in North Dakota county bonds, paid Langer $56,800 for dust-bowl lands he had never seen...
...About the means by which Langer managed to escape conviction when tried for perjury in a Federal court...