Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kokomo's most picturesque politician is Olin R. Holt, a thickset, debonair bachelor of 39 who wears horn-rimmed glasses and dresses to the nines. In 1924 he was out for Indiana's Governorship with Ku Klux Klan support. Denied the Democratic nomination, he returned home to cultivate his Baptist and American Legion following, build a local machine. In 1930 his political activities were interrupted by the Department of Justice, which found that Lawyer Holt and the Howard County sheriff had organized a "Hoosier Protective Association" which assessed local bootleggers $3 a week in return for legal...
...their training has not been sufficient to enable them safely to give full sway to their inclinations. Required courses are justifiable here for two reasons. In the first place they may actually convey sufficient knowledge of a particular field to be of cultural value long after graduation. A Bachelor of Arts degree has long signified in its possessor at least a smattering of supposedly broadening subjects. Regardless of what one may think of this viewpoint, it represents an ideal which is not lightly to be tossed overboard...
Castle Square: The John Craig Company in "A Bachelor's Honeymoon...
...month after his election to the State Supreme Court, the still higher State Court of Appeals asked and secured his appointment to sit with it to help clear a crowded calendar. He remained with that court until 1932, sitting after 1927 as its chief judge. A lifelong bachelor, he lived with his sister Ellen Ida until her death in 1929, gave his whole life to his profession. Diminutive, white-mopped Justice Cardozo is a scholar, an outstanding liberal, a humanitarian and an unusually modest man. The clarity and logic of his opinions make them among the most quoted...
Castle Square Theatre. The John Craig Stock Company in "A Bachelor's Honeymoon." Next week--"The College Widow...