Word: inde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onetime Governor James Middleton Cox and Editor Merle Thorpe of Nation's Business. At the Miami-Biltmore course the vacationing losers plotted to hoax the winner. To Golfer Pelley they introduced Paul Runyan, onetime Professional Golfers Association champion, as "Mr. Paul, a young businessman from Muncie, Ind., with a handicap of eight." In the morning round Golfer "Paul" hooked his drives into the rough, flubbed his putts, shot occasional approaches ably enough to make a 75, win. Golfer Pelley magnanimously congratulated his opponent, promised to beat him that afternoon. The hoax was prematurely exposed at lunch when Paul Runyan...
Died. Mrs. Katherine Metzel Debs, 79, widow of Socialist Eugene Victor Debs; after two months' illness; in Terre Haute, Ind. Throughout her husband's five campaigns for the Presidency (1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1920) she stayed home...
Ironside had finished preaching on a circuit ringing Stony Brook, L. I., Asbury Park, N. J. and Winona Lake, Ind., he had written 50,000 words which his secretary finished typing on the last day of August, mailed to the American Tract Society in Manhattan. There a committee representing six different denominations unanimously agreed that Dr. Ironside's treatise was the best of 29 submitted by U. S. ministers and professors in competition for a $1,000 prize offered by Mrs. Finley Johnson Shepard, great & meritorious daughter of the late & notorious Jay Gould...
...real heirs of the Van Sweringen empire were the two septuagenarian Midwest industrialists who backed the brothers last year when they bought back control of their vast rail and real-estate properties at public auction in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 7, 1935). These backers were George Alexander Ball, 74, Muncie (Ind.) fruit-jar tycoon and George Ashley Tomlinson, 70, Great Lakes ship operator. The two George A.'s together put up $3,121,000 to buy the key collateral pledged by the Van Sweringens for defaulted loans from a J. P. Morgan & Co. banking group, setting up a concern called...
Ended by recognition of their United Automobile Workers union last week was a seven-day "sitdown" by 1,100 workers in the big Bendix accessories plant at South Bend, Ind. (TIME, Nov. 30). Same day the Bendix employes went back to work on double shifts, little U.A.W.. out to organize the Automobile industry by striking at its most vulnerable link, the part's makers, called a "sitdown" of 1,200 men in Detroit's Midland Steel Products Co., which makes frame's for Chrysler and Ford...