Word: ind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rochester, Ind., the Cole Brothers-Clyde Beatty Circus offered the use of its elephants to pull out mired automobiles...
Celebrated for arresting and jailing Communist Presidential Nominee Earl Browder when he attempted to campaign last autumn in Terre Haute, Ind. (TIME, Oct. 12, 1936), Mayor Sam Beecher and his wife, Terre Haute's controller, were indicted on charges of misfeasance, re-leased on $2,500 bond each...
WHEN Edwin C. Hill was born in Aurora, Ind., 52 years ago, for some reason or other he was named Edwin Conger. He left Indiana University without taking a degree, yet he speaks of having done post graduate work at Butler (Indianapolis). He emerged from higher education a Sigma Chi. In 1904 he went to work for the New York Sun. For twenty years he served that paper, in America and as a globe-tortter...
...described as "simply murderous," a gang ran six strike organizers out of town. As four of the organizers were proceeding to Flint under police escort, an automobile swerved into their path, forced their speeding taxicab off the road into a telephone pole, seriously injuring all four. In Anderson. Ind. some 2.000 mobsters broke up a United Automobile Workers meeting with rotten eggs, moved on to wreck the union headquarters...
These were the sectors where the worst of the flood had passed. Downstream, men were still struggling too excitedly to begin counting their rosary of grief. Evansville, Ind., part of which is perched on a snow-covered bluff, looked down on a yellow sea where its business district and part of its residential district had been. There Paul Schmidt, chairman of the local Red Cross, got a lift from a passing skiff which promptly sank under him. Before a boatload of cameramen would rescue him they made him turn his profile so they could take his picture...