STATES & CITIES
Last week and the week before 32 Governors, old and new, took office throughout the land (TIME, Dec. 31). Some newsworthy inaugurals:
North Dakota. Last summer popular Republican Governor William Langer was sentenced to prison, ousted from office for forcing Federal relief workers to contribute to his political support (TIME, July 30, et ante). In November the Republicans split with the result that a small-town newspaper editor named Thomas Hilliard Moodie was elected second Democratic Governor in the State's history.*
By constitutional requirement a North Dakotan must have lived five consecutive...