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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...
...imprisonment had cost Democrat Holt his civil rights, prohibited him from voting or holding office. Last week Democrat Franklin Roosevelt removed the obstacle by granting him a full pardon...
Married. William Curtis Bok, 36, Philadelphia lawyer, son of the late Edward William Bok; and Nellie Lee Holt, religious educator, of Falls City, Neb.; in Falls City...
This week he will be opposed for re-election by Democratic Nominee Rush Dew Holt, 29, in a New Deal test...
...WORLD IN BIRTH-Romain Rolland- Holt ($2.75). Fifth & last instalment of Author Rolland's modern French epic, The Soul Enchanted...