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 William Langer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Langer was born on September 30, 1886 near Casselton, North Dakota to Frank and Mary (Weber) Langer.
By 1920, Langer was publicly accusing Townley of Bolshevism, and failed in a primary campaign to replace the incumbent NPL governor Lynn Frazier as the party's gubernatorial candidate.
Langer's break with the NPL leadership was a reflection of the infighting that limited the party's eventual influence on North Dakota politics.
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 William L. Langer: Historian of Diplomacy
Langer's seminar met in the evening in his own study at home, the students working within a field of modern diplomatic history so circumscribed that all could gain a general acquaintance with the source materials and the monographic literature.
Langer also asked whether psychoanalytical techniques could be helpful to historians in their study of larger currents of history, such as, for example, the aftermath of great plagues like the Black Death of 1348-1349.
William Langer and his wife, Rowena, were regular Unitarian congregants at The First Parish in Cambridge, MA; during his years of government service in Washington DC, they attended All Souls Church and especially appreciated the prophetic ministry of A. Powell Davies.
www.harvardsquarelibrary.org /unitarians/langer.html   (2374 words)

  
 A CRITIQUE OF IMPERIALISM - WILLIAM L. LANGER
Langer warps historical truth by understating the role played by the Rhodes' secret-society, a group of nefarious bankers and industrialists which were largely responsible for imperial expansion, and which would become the Council on Foreign Relations and Royal Institute of International Affairs.
Langer, evidently didn't mind giving the public a text that might convey the impression that the author was writing history rather than propaganda, as long as the author was William L. Langer.
Langer's international historical reputation was established in the early 1930's with two companion volumes on nineteenth-century diplomacy, European Alliances and Alignments, 1871-2890 and The Diplomacy of Imperialism, 1890-I902, of which the essay below is a widely read byproduct.
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 William Langer Papers
William Langer was born September 30, 1886 in Everest township, near Casselton, Dakota Territory.
Langer was fond of recalling how he first spied Lydia at a concert, and then arranged for her date to be called away to answer a fake phone call.
Langer had defected from the NPL in 1919, telling NPL leader A.C. Townley “You and your hirelings have lied to and are deceiving the farmers of North Dakota.” Langer was defeated by the NPL candidate, Lynn Frazier in a close election.
www.und.edu /dept/library/Collections/Langer/og19.html   (2315 words)

  
 William Langer Papers, Box 1-106
Langer during the 1920's became the Attorney for the association of depositors inclosed banks (guaranty fund commission) an association to protect depositors whose money had been taken as a result of banks being closed.
William Langer to Floyd Olson, November 13, 1933.
William Langer to Gerald Nye and Lynn Frazier.
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When her husband, William Langer, was unable to participate in North Dakota politics during the time of his federal trials, Mrs.
Langer threw her hat into the political ring and ran for governor in the 1934 election.
Former Governor Norman Brunsdale was appointed to the U.S. Senate upon the death of William Langer.
www.state.nd.us /hist/ndgov5.htm   (963 words)

  
 A Pledge Betrayed: Freeing Krupp
Langer’s election to the Senate in 1940 reflects the beginning of a shift to conservatism and the end of the New Deal liberalism.
Langer’s speech opened a new dimension in the opposition to the war crimes by claiming the trials were a communist plot against property rights.
Whether Langer was sympathetic to the Nazi movement or just a useful stooge duped by the Nazis, his actions certainly were in line with those outlined in the captured documents on how to promote strive between the US and the USSR.
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William Langer studied law at the University of North Dakota and Columbia University.
Langer was backed by the Nonpartisan League (NPL) in his successful bid for attorney general and governor.
He beat former Governor William Langer for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, but Langer refused to drop out, and entered the general election as an independent.
www.state.nd.us /hist/ndgov4.htm   (1039 words)

  
 Langer William Leonard: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
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 What would William Langer do?
William Langer represents a very emotional topic for North Dakotans although he passed away over 45 years ago.
Andrew Miller was a political enemy of Langer and should not have heard the case.
The fact that Langer was exonerated in every case against him has frequently been dismissed as proof of his cunning, and not his innocence.
www.wmlanger.com /pages/5/index.htm   (462 words)

  
 William LANGER — Infoplease.com
Governor Langer and the Mortgage Moratoria.” North Dakota Quarterly 44 (Autumn 1976): 5-17.
“William Langer’s Victory in the 1940 Senatorial Election.” Master’s thesis, University of North Dakota, 1967.
“William Langer’s Rise to Political Prominence in North Dakota.” Master’s thesis, University of North Dakota, 1967.
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 William Langer
William Langer, the son of a farmer, was born in
Langer was elected as Governor of North Dakota in January 1933.
Langer was elected to the United States Senate in 1940.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAlangerW.htm   (241 words)

  
 Langer v The State [1990] PGNC 28; N849 (25 April 1990)
On the hearing of this appeal Mr Langer whilst unrepresented was given every opportunity to speak in relation to the various grounds of appeal originally set forth in his Notice of Appeal prepared by his former lawyers.
The importance of that evidence is the tellers assurance to the Court that firstly, she would not check the contents of the box if the security tag was damaged on reception and secondly, the box in fact was received on Thursday.
John Vatabu, a Tellers Supervisor gave evidence to the effect that he telephoned the appellant, William Langer on Friday morning to have him come in and open the box with his key so that its contents may be counted.
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 The Isolationist Sentiment in North Dakota during the Truman-Eisenhower Years   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Hence, Senator William Langer, who sat between 1941 and 1959, voted against the United Nations Charter and denigrated the Marshall Plan, while his colleague Milton Young, in the upper house from 1945 to 1981, was one of only thirteen senators who opposed the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949 (Schoenebaum 298, 623).
Secondly, William Langer, who still continued to denounce foreign aid in the 1950s (Langer "Question of Curtailing"),17 was the only member of the upper house to vote against SEATO in 1954 (Doenecke 241).
Langer's correspondence also includes pro-NATO testimonies which cast doubt on Robert Wilkins' assertion that, in the summer of 1949, "fortified by letters and petitions from North Dakota, not a single one of which favored the treaty, Langer launched an attack on NATO" (Wilkins 46).
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 The CFR and Mein Kampf
William L. Langer was also one of the editors of the first English version of Adolph Hitler's Mein Kampf.
Shuster's co-editor William L. Langer was a professor and a psychologist.
William L. Langer was the OSS branch chief for Research and Analysis.
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 NDSU Library: /collections/exhibits/governor1.php
Governors of North Dakota, a traveling exhibit produced by the State Historical Society of North Dakota, is on display on the first floor of the NDSU Library from May 1, 2005 to December 23, 2005.
William Langer was removed from office in 1934 on conspiracy charges and Lt. Governor Ole Olson finished Langer's term.
Langer's elected successor, Thomas H. Moodie, was removed in 1935 after serving only five weeks in office.
www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu /collections/exhibits/governor1.php   (677 words)

  
 Sustainable Development of Industrial Minerals - Products
Langer, W.H., 2003, A General Overview of the Technology of In-Stream Mining of Sand and Gravel Resources, Associated Potential Environmental Impacts, and Methods to Control Potential Impacts: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-0153, 44 p.
Arnold, L.R., Langer, W.H., and Paschke, S.S., 2003, Analytical and numerical simulation of the steady-state hydrologic effects of mining aggregate in hypothetical sand-and-gravel and fractured crystalline-rock aquifers: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4267, 56 p.
Langer, W.H., 2004, Potential environmental impacts of quarrying stone in karst, in Seeger, C.M., ed, Proceedings, 38th Forum on the Geology of Industrial Minerals, St. Louis, MO: Missouri: Geological Survey and Resources Assessment Division Report of Investigations No. 74, pp.
minerals.cr.usgs.gov /projects/industrial_minerals/products.html   (2167 words)

  
 The Law and the People -- Monday, Jul. 09, 1934 -- Page 1 -- TIME
Last month Governor William Langer was found guilty of conspiring to defraud the U. Government by soliciting party funds, in the guise of subscriptions to his administration newspaper, from Federal employes (TIME, June 25).
A stay of sentence was granted by Federal Judge Andrew Miller pending the forthcoming primary elections, in which Governor Langer was a candidate to succeed himself.
William Langer was sentenced to 18 months in prison, $10,000 fine.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,769909,00.html   (356 words)

  
 Peter Loewenberg's Psychohistories - David R. Beisel - Fantasy and Reality in History. Decoding the Past: The ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Less well known, but equally compelling, is Loewenberg's work on the Langer family, whose relationship to psychohistory was early and important.
William Langer, the Harvard University historian of Europe and diplomacy, and his psychoanalyst brother Walter, author of the secret O.S.S. wartime profile of Hitler, were pioneers in applied psychoanalysis.
William L. Langer, "Infanticide: A Historical Survey," The History of Childhood Quarterly: The Journal of Psychohistory, 1# 3 (Winter 1973), 353-365: reprinted in Lloyd deMause, ed., The New Psychohistory (New York: The Psychohistory Press, 1975), pp.55-67.
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 What would William Langer do?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Bill Langer was one of the country's most colorful and resilient political leaders.
As governor of North Dakota, Bill Langer pared government, saved thousands of farmers, and led the state to solvency during the height of the Great Depression.
He was tried and convicted by a rigged jury, along with several of his friends and associates, on charges of conspiracy.
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 The Northern Great Plains
In addition to being a fascinating excavation, Spector weaves the history of the Wahpeton community into her story, women's activities and relations between men and women, and finally the voices, visions, and perspectives of the Dakotas themselves into the story.
This biography of William Lemke presents a picture of an individual dedicated to preserving the rights and protection of farmers.
Essays are included on Alexander McKenzie, Governor John Burke, Governor and Senator William Langer, Governor Fred G. Aandahl, and Elizabeth Preston Anderson.
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 Amazon.de: The Encyclopedia of World History with CDROM: English Books: William L. Langer,Peter N. Stearns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The "Langer Encyclopedia," as the professional academics call The Encyclopedia of World History originally edited by the late William L. Langer, is basically a history of everything--and an outstanding reference volume.
His present effort is a major revision of a classic reference book edited by William Langer that has been around since 1883.
The monograph was last published in 1972, so it was in substantial need of revision.
www.amazon.de /Encyclopedia-World-History-CDROM/dp/0395652375   (641 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "William Langer": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Townley, Frazier, and such league leaders as William Lemke and William Langer argued that state government could provide the independent economic force to offset the power of concentrated capital.
William Langer himself had got everybody back to their offices prim and proper,...
Republican populist William Langer (North Dakota), an implacable foe of an internationalist foreign policy in any form, argued that the proposed draft would lead...
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 American Historical Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
With "E" of the First Gas, by Sergeant William L. Langer and Private Robert B. MacMullin.
Godshall under the editorship of William L. Langer.
The revolutions of 1848, by William L. Langer.
www.historians.org /info/AHA_History/wllangerbibliography.htm   (216 words)

  
 Langer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Look up Langer, langer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Ellen Langer - a professor of psychology at Harvard University
William Langer - a United States politician from North Dakota
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 Walter Welford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was inaugurated as the twentieth Governor of North Dakota on February 2, 1935 after Thomas H. Moodie was removed from office after it was determined he was ineligible to hold the office.
He served until 1937 when he lost the race to former governor William Langer.
(The third-place candidate was Democrat John Moses, who became North Dakota's twenty-second governor, following Langer's second term.) Welford died in Altona, Manitoba, Canada (or in Pembina County, North Dakota} on June 28, 1952 at the age of 84.
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 ATMG - Australian Turkish Media Group - The diplomacy of Imperialism: Armenian revolutionary activities in Ottomans
The record of Armenian revolutionary activities against the Ottoman Empire in the last two decades of the 19th century is dealt with in detail in the work of the Harvard University diplomatic historian, William Langer.
Langer traces the manner by which the Armenian revolutionaries sought to incite European intervention on behalf of their cause.
Specifically, by massacring innocent Muslim villagers, they hoped to provoke counter-violence, which would then serve as a pretext for European intervention.
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 The New York Review of Books: READINGS IN INFANTICIDE
William Langer says "The subject of infanticide is so abhorrent to Christian thought that no comprehensive, systematic study of it has ever [in his] knowledge, been undertaken" (NYR, April 28).
While not at all wanting to detract from his praise of Thomas McKeown's invaluable work, this is such an important subject that I would like to refer readers to Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders's The Population Problem (Oxford, 1922).
William B. Ryan's Infanticide: Its Law, Prevalence, Prevention, and History (1872) had its points, but was far from covering the many facets of the subject listed in the title.
www.nybooks.com /articles/8461   (452 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - William Leonard Langer (Historians, U.S., Biography) - Encyclopedia
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