Word: ind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room, which smelled like a shooting gallery, they found a roly-poly little man with wide, blue eyes. He was Otto Biederman, gambler and underworld clown whom Damon Runyon frequently put into his stories under the name of "Regret." Biederman's face was a red smear of holes ind blood. Leaning over the table with one bullet in his belly, was the mussy, 33-year-old German Jew who was the cause...
Strike Tactics. Labor's biggest weapon is the general strike. In all U. S. history there have been but three. The first occurred in Seattle in 1919, the second in San Francisco in 1934. The last one took place within the past year, at Terre Haute, Ind., the late great Eugene Debs's home town.* In the latter the national Federation had taken no active part. The resolution went to the limbo of a resolutions committee pigeonhole...
...name of Jay Franklin, no writer has admitted responsibility for The New Dealers, American Messiahs or Our Lords and Masters. Most political-literary gossips ascribe authorship to John Carter and Ernest K. Lindley, author of The Roosevelt Revolution and of a campaign biography of Franklin Roosevelt. Born in Richmond, Ind., in 1899, Author Lindley was a Rhodes Scholar, worked on the New York World and Herald Tribune as political commentator, is married, has two sons, now lives in Washington. Author Carter, formerly on the staff of the New York Times Book Review, left the State Department after writing a magazine...
...Sweringen at the auction, they were strange faces to Manhattan newsmen. Spare, bald-pated George Alexander Ball is a power in Indiana politics, a Republican National Committeeman, a close friend of onetime Senator James Watson and divides the honor of being the First Citizen of Muncie. Ind. with his elder brother Frank. The only two survivors of the original five Ball brothers, they make the Ball fruit-jar known to all housewives. They both live in show places on the banks of the White River in Muncie, summering in Leland, Mich. Brother Frank, 77, commutes by plane from Leland...
...writing high-school sports. On the Times Editor Powell's flair for dramatizing news soon whipped circulation and profits up 20%. Last year his performance curve reached a new high when he went out to investigate a threatened general strike at U. S. Steel's Gary, Ind. headquarters, was promptly seized by company police, taken to their station, roughly manhandled. Editor Powell became a Scripps-Howard hero overnight when all 24 chainpapers gave his personal drama nationwide publicity, ran his picture under headlines which screamed of "corporate gangsterism" (TIME, July...