Word: inde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elkhart, Ind., Morris Shock appeared in court for operating an oversized truck (72 ft. long), was asked bv Judge Conley what he was hauling. Replied Shock, "A whale." Released, Shock & whale proceeded to Chicago's World's Fair...
...civil indictment and Methodist church trial of Rev. G. Lemuel Conway of Muncie, Ind. on a charge of attempting to rape an 18-year-old parishioner named Helen Huffman (TIME. Feb. 6, et seq.): acquittal in a circuit court jury trial. Ten farmers, a teacher and a salesman heard testimony by Miss Huffman, Mrs. Conway, a neighbor, and a woman who told how Miss Huffman had twice before accused men of attacking her. Mr. Conway appealed to his church on the strength of his civil acquittal, but the original church sentence-suspension from his pulpit for one year-was upheld...
...receiverships last week made news: ¶ Studebaker Corp., famed automakers of South Bend, Ind. were put in receivership, but not by the slow and common process of financial decay. Considering the general state of the automobile business, Studebaker had not done badly (loss for the first nine months of 1932 was $4,390,000). Last week it claimed assets exceeding liabilities by over $70,000,000. It entered a friendly receivership for technical reasons. Last autumn Studebaker attempted to acquire White Motor Co. (TIME, Sept. 26). When 95% of the White stockholders agreed, Studebaker borrowed...
...news of bygone weeks, herewith sequels from last week's news: ¶To the secular indictment of Rev. G. Lemuel Conway, 55, Methodist Episcopal minister of Muncie, Ind., for attempted rape of 18-year-old Helen Huffman (TIME, Feb. 6) : a church trial, with a jury of twelve ministers presided over by Bishop Edgar Blake of Detroit. Preacher Conway was found guilty of "imprudent ministerial conduct," suspended for one year-a penalty which churchmen considered light...
...Ralph Metcalfe, tall Negro sprinter of Marquette University : the 60-yd. dash in the Central Intercollegiate meet; at South Bend, Ind.; in 6.1 sec., 1/10 sec. better than the ten-year-old record set by Loren Murchison...