Word: hoosier
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...twelve his son Robert announced he would be a poet. E. W. Scripps thought he would outgrow it, gave the boy a newspaper training, and suddenly installed him at 21 as editor-in-chief of the Scripps papers. In 1922, E. W. Scripps picked a selfmade Hoosier, Roy Wilson Howard, then chairman of United Press, gave him to Son Robert as a partner...
...Hoosier who, when he was elected in 1929, became the first member of the House Press Gallery to descend from it to the floor. The Ludlow Anti-War Resolution, introduced three years ago, has been held up ever since by the House Judiciary Committee which had by last week almost forgotten its existence. Of the 218 signatures he needed to get the measure to the floor, Representative Ludlow has had 200 or so for several months. Mr. Ludlow found, in the congressional reaction to the Panay sinking, a chance to get the dozen or sa additional signatures he needed...
...dollar holding company with a huge chunk of its operating properties located smack in the centre of invading TVA's sphere. Though he has become the industry's spokesman in dealing with the New Deal, Mr. Willkie is by no means a typical powerman. A blunt homespun Hoosier who got into power by way of the law-after 1929-he is a low-rate, big-production man who has boosted his system's domestic sales to the highest average in the country (1,000 k.w.h. per domestic consumer per year). By business standards he is a liberal...
Hume Cronyn received a hearty welcome from the first-nighters for the good work he has already done in Boston, and his performance belied no one's expectations. Cast as the hoosier dramatist, he is triumphantly ludicrous throughout. He confides, grins and goes into raptures just as country boys, according to dramatic convention, always do. None of the actors uses any restraint, but in a farce of this sort the heavier the lines are drawn, the better...
...Hoosier Schoolboy (Monogram). Anne Nagel, as the new school teacher, humoring Mickey Rooney...