Word: hoosierism
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More than that, newsmen learned that Elmer Davis, who had survived three years of Oxford without losing a trace of his Hoosier accent, had been perceptibly affected by a month in Washington. As he put it, his outlook on Army and Navy news had changed since crossing "to the other side of the fence...
...censor, appointed by Presidential executive order: 50-year-old Hoosier-born Byron Price, competent executive news editor of Associated Press. Because the press had long expected a New Deal zealot as censor, its first reaction to the Price appointment was one of relief...
...people and Congress. The road to war has changed very little, except that it is better paved and has smoother-looking billboards along the way. With Me Too Willkie, the last few miles would have been the same. Asked recently about his anti-intervention statements last fall, the Hoosier man-of-the-people winked and said, "just campaign oratory." He may not be as skillful a driver as Roosevelt, but he certainly has grasped the technique...
...Hoosier Law. In Fort Wayne, Ind., when Artemus Knuckles sued to get back a wandering pig which a neighbor had confiscated, his lawyer, David Hogg, cited a decision by Circuit Judge Martin L. Pigg...
...Hoosier utility man led F.D.R. 113 to 81 in Lowell House and 103 to 79 in Eliot, but the President held a narrow four-vote margin in Kirkland, 81 to 77. Norman Thomas ran a consistently poor third, while Langdon P. Marvin Jr. '41 found himself the choice of one enthusiastic Deacon and an optimistic Bunny...