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Word: hindiana (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1938-1938
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...snag. "Bang the trumpet and blow the drum," began a sarcastic attack in Sir Walter Layton's pro-New Deal Star. "For the first time in history, an American Presidential boom-or boomlet-has been started in London." In the U. S., Columnist Heywood Broun gave Candidate Gannett "Hindiana, Hiowa and Harkansas." In Manhattan, the Daily News chortled: "If Lord Beaverbrook has his way . . . and Roosevelt runs against him-boy, what a dish Gannett will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: British Boomlet | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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