Word: hoosierism
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...born in St. Louis, raised in Indianapolis, educated in Chicago. Since childhood he speaks with a Hoosier twang, as does Anna Fishbein whom he has known since childhood. She accompanies him on all his trips around the country, and on the road acts as his personal secretary and purchasing agent (ties, shirts...
Fortnight ago one of the country judges sitting in Cook County's Circuit Court (TIME, April 26), Joseph E. Daily of Peoria, ruled that the marriage was valid in such a way as to cause many a Hoosier and Sucker (Illinoisan) couple to raise their eyebrows. Ruled...
...they don't already do it, students at Indiana University should take time off to have a look at six-foot Kermit Maynard, once (in early twenties) an All-Western Conference Hoosier halfback. Maynard will probably be found on the screen of some side-street theater, acting in a "horse-and-oats opera," like Sandy of the Mounted or Trails of the Wild...
...Second Hoosier: "There's 11,000 miles difference, so far as 1940 is concerned...
...forceful, eloquent, ingratiating personality. He has also made many an enemy by his autocratic disposition, his use of militia in labor disputes. The troops, plus his use of the semi-dictatorial emergency powers he won from the Legislature few weeks after he took office, won him the title of "Hoosier Hitler." Citizens squirmed under his stiff taxes but otherwise it was generally admitted that he did a businesslike job of running his State. He worked hard to deliver it for Franklin Roosevelt last November...