Word: inde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin D. Roosevelt can point with pride to the fact that, in the two years and four months since he took office, the breath of scandal has blown but two piddling puffs on his Administration. First puff was the flatulent product of that impressionable Gary, Ind. school superintendent, Dr. William Wirt. whose charges that the Brain Trust was all but in the pay of Moscow made a farcical Congressional investigation last year (TIME, April 23, 1934). Second puff flurried up portentously fortnight ago when Ewing Young Mitchell, whom the President had to oust as Assistant Secretary of Commerce because...
...reckoning set by the County Board neared last week, Bob Sweitzer motored down to Terre Haute, Ind. to see his daughter graduate from a convent school. Back in Chicago, he maintained a fine show of aplomb, admitted a "100% moral responsibility," talked of paying $335,000, contesting the rest. Meantime, he held a succession of night conferences with his bondsmen, who were reported ready to renege on their $3,000,000 obligation on the grounds that Sweitzer had filed false information with them. Important Chicago politicians gave no indication of willingness to rescue reputedly penniless Bob Sweitzer from his financial...
Married. Dr. James Henry Breasted, 69, University of Chicago archeologist; and Mrs. Imogen Hart Richmond, 50, sister of his late first wife; at Rensselaer, Ind...
...Avenue triangles and Hollywood infidelities." While officially professing no political creed, most League member theatres leaned inevitably toward Socialism. Membership was usually composed of unemployed or partly employed industrial workers not only in big centres like Chicago and Cleveland but in smaller manufacturing cities like Moline, Ill. and Gary, Ind. Not infrequently the shirt-sleeved amateurs went to the theatre after work, rehearsed and played there, ate there and slept on cots pitched on the stage. Through the League's play service, such "agitprop" pieces as Comrade, Mr. Morgan's Nightmare, Who's Who in the Berlin...
John S. Wiley grE.S.--appointed Assistant in Sanitary Engineering. S.B. in Civil Engineering, Purdue '34. Home: West Lafayette, Ind...