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Last week the people of Indianapolis decided that their city government represented one such "outstanding failure." Said Meredith Nicholson, famed Hoosier novelist: "Do you know that for not one but for half a dozen years the newspapers of Indianapolis have printed almost daily stories of the degradation of public office?. . . We have had one shameful thing after another and the end is not yet. . . .We seem to have placed ourselves in the unenviable category of Philadelphia-a city corrupt but contented...
Harry S. New, Postmaster General, was dictating letters last week. Upon the word "Come-at-able," his stenographer was "stumped," puzzled. "Come-at-able," explained Mr. New, "means 'approachable'; it is a companion word to the old Hoosier 'get-at-able...
That whimsical Hoosier, the late Thomas R. Marshall, inaugurated the annual Vice Presidential feast in honor of the Senate page boys, Calvin Coolidge continued it, added an after-dinner speech. Last week, Charles G. Dawes invited the 50 other employes of the Senate, addition to the 20 pages; he had fun; they...
...Author of The House of a Thousand Candles, A Hoosier Chronicle, Otherwise Phyllis...
...Arthur R. Robinson, Republicans, oppose Albert Stump and Evans Woollen, Democrats. Indiana, too, was once a state thought safe for the G. O. P. Then along came a harmless-looking newspaperman, Thomas H. Adams, with a fabulous story of Ku Klux Klan "super-government" in the ranks of Hoosier Republicanism. His charges have not yet been proved, but they make good campaign material. Last week Senator James A. Reed, wary slush bloodhound, stalked into Indiana for one day, long enough to hear Senators Watson and Robinson deny any connection with the Klan's taint. Unless the Democrats...