Word: ind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This exchange perceptibly relieved the feelings of the 1,200 U. A. W. delegates on the floor. Their union, which has mushroomed from 30,000 to 375,000 members since it convened in South Bend, Ind. a year ago, which is now the third biggest union in C. I. 0. (after United Mine Workers) was badly contorted by growing pains. The disagreement between cocky, young Homer Martin and his vice presidents, Wyndham Mortimer and Ed Hall, brewing ever since Martin blamed them for this summer's sporadic "unauthorized" General Motors sitdowns, had reached such a point that President Martin...
After a police motor squad had patrolled the course, the heats began. In the third heat, Jack Wyatt, of Anderson, Ind., wrecked his car by crashing into a dog. After five hours, the crowd, somewhat thinned by the inescapable monotony of the spectacle provided by small boys coasting down a hill, saw the final heat. Robert Ballard, 12, of White Plains, N. Y., got the checkered flag as he rolled across the finish line first to win the U. S. championship, a silver trophy, a diamond-set gold medal and a four-year scholarship to any State university he might...
Once in the War of 1812 he ran 60 miles in a day to warn settlers of an Indian raid. Finally, at 72, he wandered to Fort Wayne, Ind. At a settler's house near there, after hiking 20 miles, he lay down on the hearth to rise no more...
Married, Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), 63, oldtime prizefighter, lately a Ford Motor Company policeman, for the ninth time, to Mrs. Sue Cobb Cowley, 44; in Rushville, Ind...
...Noble Kizer, Purdue University athletic director and head football coach, of nephritis, in La Fayette, Ind.; New York Timesman Walter Duranty, after an abdominal operation, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore; Edgar Watson ("Ed") Howe, 84, famed onetime publisher of the Atchison (Kans.) Globe, of overwork, in Atchison; Bill Owens, captain of the New York Giants professional football team, after an auto collision, in Kingsley, Kans...