Word: inde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warsaw, Ind., on the platform of a convention hall, sat a trio of solemn judges, holding a little bunch of blue, red and yellow ribbons. They scrutinized a procession which passed through the hall, whispered among themselves. Old friends were the three; each year theirs is the task of pacing through the livestock pens at the county fair, bestowing prizes on Indiana's finest cattle. Among the exhibits which filed hopefully past them last week were no cattle but 240 pairs of humans, assembled in Warsaw's fourth annual Twins' Convention. Judging twins, the cattlemen found...
Gordon Myron Messing, aged 17, of Indianapolis, Ind., graduate of Shortridge High School. He is the son of Samuel M. Messing, salesman. Messing ranked first in his class, was an editor of the school paper, leader of the debating team, and winner of a city-wide French contest. His ambition is to enter some branch of medicine...
...wicker basket aboard a hearse the body of John Dillinger rode home last week from Chicago's morgue to Mooresville, Ind. There it was dressed in a light suit, fitted into a $165 coffin, and taken to his sister's bungalow outside Indianapolis. During the night 2,500 mourners filed past all that was left of the year's worst killer...
...Mooresville, Ind. farmhouse Dillinger's father took the news hard. Barefoot, clad in overalls, he stood in the doorway, tears streaming down his cheeks. "Is it really true?" he asked, bewildered, "Are you sure there is no mistake? I have prayed and prayed it would not happen. ... I can hardly talk. . . Johnny was not near as bad as he was painted...
...cool during their sweating, sweltering sessions each arriving delegate was handed a cardboard fan. On its face he found a gaudy chromo entitled "No. 528 Nature." On its back appeared the square, smiling countenance of Henry Lester Smith. 58, Dean of the School of Education at Indiana University (Bloomington, Ind.). At the week's end grateful delegates elected Dean Smith their president for next year...