Word: elwood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later became Asst. Scout Master and finally Scout Master for the same troop. . . . I believe that this information, if properly circulated, will be a big help to Mr. Willkie and will kill a great deal of the prejudice the colored people have for him because he was born in Elwood...
...individual rights of man. Out of it had come the philosophy of his campaign: that the individual is greater than the State; that the purpose of Government is to make men free, since only free men will be able to build a productive and prosperous society. At Elwood he had said: "Only the strong can be free and only the productive can be strong...
That independence had gotten him many a black eye and bloody nose in the days when he was one of the four rough Willkie boys at Elwood, Ind., a talent for trouble that rose from pushing over Elwood outhouses (sometimes with outraged citizens in them), on through college, when he was so pugnaciously nonconformist as to organize the "barbs" against the fraternity men. He had always eventually conformed, but always on his own terms. In his last year as a turtleneck-sweatered roughneck at Indiana University he did join a fraternity, Beta Theta Pi, best on the campus, whose requirements...
Married. Sarah Palfrey, 27, 3rd ranking U. S. woman tennist; and Elwood Cooke, 26, 6th ranking U. S. tennist, of Portland, Ore.; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
...grim and unsmiling as the twelve-car train pulled out of Rushville. First scheduled stop was Chicago. First important speech would be three days later at Coffeyville, Kans., where he had taught high school. Willkieites counted on that speech to do what his acceptance speech at Elwood had failed to do: set the Willkie drive on fire. If the Coffeyville speech did not do it, GOPoliticians would have good cause for gloom. Aboard the train were skeptical newspapermen, the candidate's staff of amateur advisers, Mrs. Willkie in a grey hat and coat, Son Philip, Brother...